Current Events > People should stop using 1984 as a reference point for society

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The dystopia we live in is way more like the kind in Brave New World.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

Like we all dream about rising up against the powers that be like in V for Vendetta. But we're already in the nightmare and all we want to do is watch tv and browse reddit.

Interesting point.

okay, will do.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

Come on, it was like he was describing Trumpers.

if there's one thing that Trumpies are good at is swallowing.

Most people who reference it havent even read it.

I just want more of that sweet centrifugal bumblepuppy.

Social media comment sections: "WE-WANT-THE-WHIP!"

The Rs want 1984
The Ds want BNW

Anony1125 posted...

I just want more of that sweet centrifugal bumblepuppy.

I remember at one point Animal Farm was the go-to literary reference of dystopian symbolisms.

Society should stop being boring and mix things up with its Orwell novels.

It's both tbh.