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1984 in 2024: Orwell Was Right
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| 10 Jun, 2024
| Daniel McCarthy
Posted on 06/12/2024 7:12:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
It is like Groundhog Day where every day is April 1, 1984.
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:12:44 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
It is like Groundhog Day where every day is April 1, 1984. "Don't Drive Angry!"
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:14:23 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: MtnClimber
Most of us rational people took Orwell’ writings as warnings. 1984 is mentioned here. Animal Farm also counts.
The left took them as playbooks. And have executed.
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:19:03 AM PDT
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piytar
To: piytar
The left took them as playbooks. And have executed.Or the author simply understood human nature and could "see" where it would take us.
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:21:08 AM PDT
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1Old Pro
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:24:01 AM PDT
by
nopardons
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:25:02 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: McGruff
“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!”
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:25:38 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: 1Old Pro
Cannot disagree with your assessment.
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:25:50 AM PDT
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piytar
To: MtnClimber
Orwell was right, of course, he was just off by a few years.
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:27:12 AM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(You Say You Want a Revolution?)
To: MtnClimber; piytar; 1Old Pro
The most depressing thing about “1984” is that at the end the system wins and Winston loves big brother.
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:27:29 AM PDT
by
aquila48
(Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
To: aquila48
The most depressing thing about “1984” is that at the end the system wins and Winston loves big brother.Doesn't Atlas Shrugged have a better ending?
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:28:40 AM PDT
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1Old Pro
To: MtnClimber
One Christmas recently, I gave my grandson and grandaughter each a hardcover four-book set I assembled for them. “1984,” “Brave New World,” “Fahrenheit 451,” and “Animal Farm.”
Their mother intercepted and confiscated the books, and told the kids she’d give them to them, “a little later, when you’re ready.”
He’s in high school, she’s in college.
* fap * (said Major Hoople.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/12/2024 7:57:08 AM PDT
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bigbob
To: bigbob
I’m reading it for the 3rd time over a 5 decade period. Keeps getting better. These ‘friends’ of Winston keep getting sneakier.
To: MtnClimber
1984 was based on Orwell’s observations when he was in the part of Spain controlled by the Communists before they were defeated by Franco.
To: Daveinyork
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blaire.
To: MtnClimber
But he intended the book as a warning about what could happen in the WestI read 1984 50 years ago and considered it entertaining fiction. I was wrong. His fiction has become a terrible prediction that is quickly becoming reality.
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posted on
06/12/2024 9:12:41 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
To: MtnClimber
When I read 1984, I thought there was no way people could be convinced to disbelieve fundamental reality, like math and facts of nature. I have since been reeducated about human nature.
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posted on
06/12/2024 10:13:46 AM PDT
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Spok
To: MtnClimber
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