I beat that book to death with college application essays and papers in early college.
Posted on 09/05/2023 4:20:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If novelist George Orwell were alive today I wonder what he would tell us
That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984."
Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a world where words lose their meaning. Many of the terms he coined for the novel have since entered common discourse -- "thought police," "Big Brother," "doublethink," and the "memory hole," to name a few. And of course the adjective "Orwellian" comes to us because of this book. All of them point to the loss of our most precious freedom -- freedom of thought. And unfortunately, that’s where we as a society appear to be headed today.
The setting for "1984" is a dysfunctional, decaying London torn apart after the "atomic wars" of the 1950s and 1960s reshaped the planet into just three primary nation-states. Oceania (London and the West) remains in a permanent state of war, sometimes with Eastasia, sometimes with Eurasia. It doesn’t really matter, as long as there’s an external enemy to hate.
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The feckless politicians who appeased Hitler (who despised their weakness and called them “little worms”) thought Churchill was too daring. They probably would have banned him from Twitter.
If you liked that try "Hilter" by Joachim Fest. It's long but it's a deep dive into Hitlers' life from birth to bunker and his rise to power. Scary stuff as to how so many things came together to produce world wide chaos.
“Darkness at Noon” will curl your toes as well.
That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, 1984. …What would he say?
I told you so.Wonder why that was omitted from the quoted text.
In the novel, Winston rents a bedroom without a telescreen where he trysts with a young woman, a member in name only of the “Anti-Sex League.” Smith is ratted out when he foolishly assumes a colleague is a member of the (anti-Big Brother) Brotherhood. Smith is tortured and brainwashed into giving up his rebellious nature and his freedom of thought. Ultimately, to his everlasting shame, or at least to ours, he comes to love Big Brother. …More accurately, Julia was in the Junior Anti-Sex League.
“Don’t worry, Winston; you are in my keeping. For seven years, I have watched over you. Now, the turning point has come. I shall save you, Winston; I shall make you perfect.”Ultimately, the brainwash is so severe that Winston regards his true memories, when they surface after his release, as false memories.
It’s a bit different flavor, but those interested in this sort of thing would do well to also read C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. It’s a sort of Christian version of 1984.
Orwell meant 1984 and Pig Farm as warnings.
The leftscum took them as playbooks.
Open borders
Monumental debt
Forced medical experiments
Rampant crime in the streets
Desecration of the national history
Shut down of any debate or dissent
Constant monitoring of communications, travel, DNA for citizens
Forced mutilation of minors
Use of the judicial system for political ends
Nightmare, indeed.
Trump is Goldstein...
that’s why public school indoctrination have such an easy time brainwashing our youth.
I reread “1984” about 8 years ago. I had trouble sleeping for 3 nights!
Buy weapons and ammo. Room 101 already exists.
Yes, it IS still assigned! My grandson ( a senior in high school ) will be reading this in English class this year.
Seniors, in his private day school, have always read it.
Just because YOU didn’t have to read it in school, doesn’t mean that other schools didn’t/don’t require it. And yes, it IS still required reading in some schools.
Well, Thank God, Oversight and Judiciary have issued SUPOENAS
TO MAYORKAS AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
Maybe someone else read 1984 and decided to do SOMETHING.
Thanks - looks like a similarly scholarly work.
I live in a blue state, so that could be the reason it wasn’t required reading for me.
I had to read it for required summer reading before I entered freshman year high school and found it to be a scary vision.
Babies were lab grown, the word "mother" was a "dirty word" as nobody had a biological mother and all children were raised in groups by female keepers, instead of a class system based on wealth and hereditary, it was by IQ and jobs, including color coded uniforms worn by each class.
Combine 1984, BRAVE NEW WORLD, and FAHRENHEIGHT 451 and most of these things are what we have right now, today.
While I was reading it, the song For What It's Worth became a hit song on the radio, was played constantly where I lived. The song enhanced the creepiness the book made me feel.
I can tell you that three different different states, at three different times, with one public ( in New Hampshire ) and two private schools ( one in Pa. and one in Texas ) were/now are requiring that book to be read.
I beat that book to death with college application essays and papers in early college.
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