Chilling. Could happen, right?
He doesn't know
>>25160408It could, now. People talk about surveillance, but a fundamental element that made the dystopia possible is that they had the technonological capacity to fully profile people down to their most extreme fears, which is how they could know what you were thinking. And guess what, we have that now.
>>25160408Modern west isn’t 1984 which was against Stalinism, long long dead ideology outside of Korea. Modern west is Terry Gillian’s Brazil which is about Thatcher England and Reagan era US.
Orwell was one of them wasn't he? Guys like him didn't predict shit. They're just telling you what their masters have planned for you. Even to the very end where you cuck out and love big brother before you get shot to pieces. These demons will fry in hell for what they're doing to humanity.
>>25160408anyone who thinks this is happening or will ever happen is trapped in their-mind that was created by not-their-mind
stand on zanzibar was more prophetic
North Korea at times has seemed like it was literally modeled off 1984, but other than that I'm pretty sure the existence of the internet has put an end to the idea of the government's ability to completely control information like in the book. All that stuff is done via psyops these days
So many bootlickers in this thread.
>>25160408If you vote Democrats yes
>>25160442We don't have that nowNot even close
>>25160951sorry, if it's any consolation, the US government would probably like to be orwellian. The reality is that it's more.........kafkaesque..........
>>25160408The bait worked, well done OP.
>>25160408Certainly some aspects of 1984 are present even today, and we're going further in this direction. That said, I think Huxley's vision of the future is much closer to what we're actually going to get. I think Brave New World is practically a prophetic text at this point. We're on the road to serfdom and at the end of it is the brave new world.
>>25160408We already live in a reality close to being as bad as this. And it will soon be worse.
>>25160408One of the most overrated books of all time. It's great when it's talking about the methods of information control, language, propaganda, and honeypots, and the way "beetle-like men" (eerily similar to the meme of the bugman) thrives in the society; but it really isn't that good otherwise. I think part of it is, Orwell was talking about the Soviets and the Fascists, which are pretty obviously bad, and our dystopic system in the West is much more insidious and decentralized. I think part of it is, Orwell was not willing to talk about the problems plaguing the putatively Free World except insofar as they resembled the overtly oppressive and totalitarian regimes of the early 20th century.Picrel is a much more scathing and relevant critique of the modern world, including the West, its goals, and systems of power.
>>25161884Forgot pic
>>25160408No, because Huxley have already won and we already live in the equivalent of his Brave New World.
Trust the science, chud.
>>25160408Which part?
