What do you think of this book?

I want to know what Sup Forums mind is concerning George Orwell's 1984

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It scared me, and made me refine my beliefs a bit further.

Very good

It's okay.

Brave New World is more prophetic though.

Great book, parallels between this and modern day society are getting increasingly similar.

Almost in a self fulfilling prophecy kind of way.

I dropped it the moment they added the stilted romance.

Seriously, I got the concept/could conceive how it was going to go after the first few chapters.

All dystopias are so similar it's boring after the first one.

The UK or Europe is more like 1984

The US is more like Brave New World

Over rated trash about shit that will never come true

>parallels between this and modern day society are getting increasingly similar.
Not even close

They haven't legalized my soma yet.

the british, orwells people, ironically took 1984 as a manual instead of a warning, the US went more for the Aldous Huxley dystopian route where everyone is entertained and drugged into submission

either way we're fucked, too far gone, being aware of it has no power over them, there is only one way. isolation, quit going to work, quit buying, quit watching tv, exclude their bullshit from our lives, enough of us do this and the true head of the beast will show itself, then we can remove it.

Although I must HIGHLY recommend 1984, which is great (and important), you've got to push through at least until the main character gets taken to the Ministry of Love (government torture center), which is at about the halfway point; I say this because the story can be a bit slow until then. Don't neglect to read the essay The Principles of Newspeak, which is appended to the end of the novel -- Some think it's important to read this essay before reading the story -- It starts on page 376 of the following pdf. DISREGARD the second novel which someone has appended to the end of Orwell's work in this pdf:

>1984
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Great book, but I don't understand why normies only associate it to mass surveillance while the focus is mostly on newspeak and destruction of culture and history.

Orwell was a faggot

>tfw epsilon

It was a contemporary satire, not a prophecy

Fantastic cautionary piece of literature which I have seen slowly unfold into fact since I read it in highschool some 13 years ago.

Not as depressing as Brave New World however.

1984 never spoke to me cause I knew it would never be reality. Everyone is against what the government in it embodies. Brave New World on the other hand, scared me.

>will never come true

>taking it literally

LoL

The world is a big fucking place, not everything centres around america, you faggot.

A Brave New World is the same goal but coming from the opposite angle and more accurately describes American politics at this point.

If you actually had any idea what goes on outside your country, you would see that 1984 is becoming a reality in countries like the UK and Australia.

agreed
nah the romance only added to the horror later on.

My favoite quotes from 1984:

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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever."

-- George Orwell, 1984

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"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."

-- George Orwell, 1984

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

-- George Orwell, 1984

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"When we are omnipotent [... t]here will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness."

-- George Orwell, 1984

1984 is hyper-adolescent garbage. shit writing; retarded paranoia. a favorite hop of the mentally ill.

> the US went more for the Aldous Huxley dystopian route
>Proles who desire telescreens are required to purchase them. Their functions are simple: work and breed. They care little about anything but home and family, neighbour quarrels, films, football, beer, lottery tickets, and other such bread and circuses. They are not required to express support for the Party beyond occasional patriotic fervour; the Party creates meaningless entertainment, songs, novels and even pornography for the proles

The average American sounds like a 1984 prole.

Because they're fucking normies and therefore unable to grasp anything beyond hurt big bro is watching durr

Newspeak and doublethink and the real-time reframing of reality are very real. Just look at the narrative about Hillary's health

agreed

Antidepressants, or MDMA?

Because of oh-so-many interpretations by "intellectuals" who've labeled "the surveillance state" as its biggest warning. V for Vendetta (the movie) didn't help matters, of which I find it ironic that Sup Forums has labeled it as being their unofficial mascot. Add the fact that, whether we like it or not, Anonymous + Sup Forums has been the driving force of internet meme culture and self-identity for over 14 years and here we are, clueless as when we first started.

Solutions? Go to space. Try again on a station or a new planet. Earth is summarily fucked if most of the human population is on it.

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We're in a blend of BNW and 1984.

So a place where we have no control and only snippets of joy?

Sounds right

is there a movie?

>newspeak
>doublethink
must be what its like to be a liberal
>diversity is unity

Definitely.

there is but you won't get the full scope of the novel
its not even a long read about 10 hours

When the fuck do I get my daily rations of Soma then?

Salt and porn will do.

But by all means go ahead and fry your brain on some research chemicals.

Also, life is hard being an Alpha minus...

There is, and it's alright, but you need to read the book to appreciate what it leaves out. The book let's you dance in the horror of totalitarianism as some of the words are purposely vague, so you can imagine it, while the movie paints it for you.

>what is USSR

DUDE WEED!

I liked Darkness at Noon better, but it's still good.

>I knew it would never be reality
Except in north korea, cuba, and the USSR.

it's on my "will ready eventually" list