Nineteen Eighty-Four

Is this book Sup Forums-approved?

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Make sure you read Brave New World as well.

They're both short so there's no harm in working them in even if you never had to read them in high school.

Brace new world is much closer to the liberal dystopia ((they)) want to create

It's high school entry level shit.

and The Turner Diaries is closer to Sup Forums's

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I will, thanks for the recommendation.

doesnt make it bad though. Its one of the few great reads still taught in school. Too bad it goes over the stupid students heads when they first read it and become degenerate Bernie lovers

Also, we're closer to achieving the dystopia in BNW than we are the dystopia of 1984. Though, you'll see elements from both books presented in real life, the constant surveillance in 1984 comes to mind.

Yeah sorry. I didn't mean that the book was shit. Just that it isn't the highest "intellectuals only" book that people tout it to be.

Yes, they work well together.
Also check out this video. There's a reading list on this to end all reading lists. Do it.

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Huxley > Orwell

1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 are the big 3. The current world is kind of a mix between all 3. We are in the beginning stages.

The problem is people always assume that they will just wake up and the world will be like it is in the books. A complete shift from night to day. They never realize that those changes are implemented slowly. One by one. Moving closer to like the sun moves across the sky.

what do you like in this genre user

Since "alternative facts" have become the Trump motto, not anymore.

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Is Ministry of Truth (Kremlin propaganda), Straits of working for 100-300$. The inner circle that has all the benefits of civilization. Search internal enemies and "Russia ALWAYS feuded with West". Big Brother - you know who.

The problem with the books is everyone sees them as "Oh no, this is what we might BECOME" rather than "These are satires of what society we currently live in." If people shifted their thinking towards the latter truth, there'd be a lot more complaining in politics, and rightfully so.

Like most science fiction or even serious books about geopolitics, they are effectively training manuals about how things could play out in the future were we to follow this path or that one.

I didn't read 1984 in high school. But when I finally got around to it, it was, in metaphor, at least, shockingly correct. For instance there are indeed viewscreens everywhere now with cameras and microphones in them, very expensive government agencies tasked to gather intelligence from them, and things that do very much go down the ol' memory hole when the official narrative doesn't quite line up.

1985 is also excellent. The first half is an essay contextualising 1984 and the second half talks about a socialist and Islamic UK.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_(Anthony_Burgess_novel)

Is this anywhere as bad as A Cockwork Orange?

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Yeah but not as bad as your bait

ferenheight 451 was a good read. The parlors are actually getting closer and closer to reality.

>only putting one /

It makes a good holiday brochure for anybody wanting to visit the UK

>Carl Jung, 1984, BNW

These were my big three growing up, which is how I think I ended up here in the first place. I think those 3 alone can change a man, along with Dune and Fight Club. Anyone here have a similar experience in high school?

reminder that its about totalitarian communism

also read animal farm

I liked it. But libs trying to act as if it's coming true with Trump's presidency are grasping at straws.

Literally the same here senpai, Jung had a profound impact on me

I think it's more important to be read to realize that the groundwork already exists for it to swiftly become reality if we as a society are not careful. A few countries already exist close to its world, and the fact that it's banned in those countries is scary by itself.