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"There are no social problems in the technology industry. We have always been at war with Eastasia." Boy oh boy, I sure love me some Orwell references. Refere
by MichaelAza 13y ago
"There are no social problems in the technology industry. We have always been at war with Eastasia."
Boy oh boy, I sure love me some Orwell references.
Referencing 1984 should be on par with referencing Hitler. It's just a lazy debate tactic. If you have a good point you can make it without resorting to these much-too-often used references.
Orwell himself went against it his essay "Politics and the English Language". Read it. It'll do you good.
- jlgreco 13y agoI don't see any particular reason to eschew common or obvious references to history or literature because they are easy or common. If that is honestly something that bothered us, we would be complaining at the shear number of western authors who have been falling back on biblical allusion, or greek mythology for centuries (both in fiction and otherwise). It is easy to reference The Tower of Babel, or the story of Icarus, but we don't complain when people do. (I know, I know, being an easy comparison isn't the real reason we complain about references to Hitler. I don't find the real reasons to be compelling either.)