she_is_my_addiction
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rgraham666
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It's a satire Sima. Mostly.
she_is_my_addiction
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rgraham666 said:
I know that 1984 is a satire, but the person I got this link from is deadly serious about it. He...follows it.
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No, the web site is a satire. It's using Orwell's book to highlight the actions of the current U.S. administration.
I don't think 1984 was a satire. An allegory maybe.
I prefer the term 'cautionary tale' myself.
I don't think 1984 was a satire. An allegory maybe.
I prefer the term 'cautionary tale' myself.
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Well I guess what I'm asking is, what do people think of it in general? What if we lived by those rules and ideas, totally, completely, 100%?
she_is_my_addiction said:
What makes you think we aren't already?
That's the scarey thing, that people think it's just a warning of things to come and not more of a history of what is.
Who was it who said "No man is more hopelessly enslaved than he who believes he is free."?
1984 was intended as a satirical look at the aims and aspirations of the left-Wing Socialist government of the UK for, would you believe, 1948, the year after it was written.rgraham666 said:
It is interesting to note how much of it has come true. Metrication, for instance; and newspeak which we call Political Correctness; and the ubiquitous CCTV cameras; and the internet churning out porn for the masses.
