Brave New World too.

Jun 3, 2020
5:41:54pm

displacedute Truly Addicted User

We have a combination of both problems. 1984's state trying to control every part of our lives and BNW's state trying to distract us from what's important with varieties of Soma (entertainment mostly).

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displacedute

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1984 is a very good book to have your kids read (or yourself).

Ragnar Danneskjold MySpace Influencer

6/3/20 5:03pm

I have read it a few times. Very dark, especially given where we're at these days.

HighHorse

6/3/20 5:06pm

Yeah. The ending is especially bad.

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/3/20 5:14pm

Ending is epic. Even when I am senile I will remember it.

happyhiker

6/3/20 7:51pm

Haha, I agree about Atlas Shrugged. By the end you feel you've been bludgeoned. But that Hank Rearden dude if for real

Hank Rearden

6/3/20 8:06pm

He's ok, I guess. But Ragnar is the real real deal.

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/3/20 8:09pm

Yet we all fall 2nd to that personality-less, automaton John Galt.

Hank Rearden

6/3/20 8:19pm

Who?

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/3/20 8:27pm

The book is a must read.

Backcountry

6/3/20 5:08pm

Dude there is some weird stuff in that book. Not too kid friendly.

dave

6/3/20 5:09pm

True. I think teens could handle it though.

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/3/20 5:12pm

Thats why kids should read it. That book will scare kids into fearing

Backcountry

6/3/20 5:16pm

Hopefully it will scare them into fearing totalitarianism, which is what Orwell

chilango

6/3/20 6:07pm

A very small, limited government is necessary

Backcountry

6/3/20 6:22pm

I actually read 1984 before the year 1984.

SoCalCoug

6/3/20 5:22pm

I read it so long before 1984, that it seemed like a distant future.

HighHorse

6/3/20 5:28pm

That's why you're more crotchety than me...

SoCalCoug

6/3/20 5:32pm

HighHorse is like a Buddhist monk compared to you.

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/3/20 5:35pm

HighHorse is a Buddhist monk. I studied with the masters in Tibet.

HighHorse

6/3/20 5:40pm

I read it in 1983, LOL.

cosmohio

6/3/20 6:44pm

Believe it or not, I actually typed up a 3 page short story on it that they

Misteak

6/3/20 7:09pm

Brave New World too.

displacedute

6/3/20 5:41pm

Ah yes. Soma. Forgot about that (due to heavy soma use)

TNT

6/3/20 5:51pm

‘Pneumatic’

MaroonCoug

6/3/20 6:06pm

RE: ‘Pneumatic’

displacedute

6/3/20 6:13pm

The album is good too

TNT

6/3/20 5:50pm

Plus good. Double plus good.

No touching

6/3/20 6:10pm

Hate that book. Just do.

Wyomingite

6/3/20 6:11pm

A sad confession. I read it for the first time this spring.

Hank Rearden

6/3/20 6:11pm

At the urging of my 23 yo son.

Hank Rearden

6/3/20 6:12pm

It loses a little of it's dramatic affect if read after the year of our Lord, 1985.

HighHorse

6/3/20 6:19pm

All I knew about 1984, in 1984, was that Apple used the book as inspiration for a commercial for the Macintosh.

Hank Rearden

6/3/20 8:23pm

AND:

Ragnar Danneskjold

6/3/20 8:29pm

Man's Search for Meaning too.

SpiffCoug

6/3/20 6:32pm

Try Zamyatin's We. It was Orwell's inspiration.

panguitch

6/3/20 6:36pm

I think we're getting closer to 1984's dystopia, but the last 20 years

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