>>25269634
Keep everything the same but have the govt give you a state-mandated gf and suddenly it's a utopia

>total dictatorship and control BAD
Truly novel work. Thank you fraud man. By the way, what's your epic alternative utopia?
>U-Uh socialism without the bad men!
Okay so nothing serious or has ever worked. Thank you Midwit boy.

>>25269668
You’ve not read it so shut up

>>25269780
Everyone read it, moron. They literally force you to read this midwit in school. Lol what a weird thing to say.

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>>25269634
winston had a stable job
subsidized housing
subsidized gin and cigarettes
he had nice neighbors
his work colleagues were affable
subsidized prostitutes
The Big Brother personality cult gave him something to believe in, purpose in life and a sense of belonging and community.
He got free tv


am i supposed to think this is bad?

>>25269797
this, it's not even a hard novel to read. It's only around 300 pages and there's a popular movie adaption starring John Hurt. I refuse to believe there's a large swath of people who pretend to have read it.

>>25269634
It wouldn't be that bad if you could just keep your head down and be an obedient goy but the party doesn't just want obedience they want enthusiastic service.

>>25269885
actually proles probably have it the best because they aren't under constant watch aside from the occasional one the thought police decide to bump off as a warning to the others

I thought Brave New World was a cool world, or would be one to live in.

>>25269634
Always thought it was funny how the girl is just a rebel from the waist down, and when Winston tries to discuss political theory with her she literally falls asleep.

>>25269893
Yeah I'd love to try some soma

>>25269797
You didn’t read it correctly

>>25269971
I will not be gaslighted. Orwell hates you.

>>25269885
Which is true except that Winston starts noticing things at work, because he has a mind. Winston can see what’s been going on with the memoryholing and this noticing is noticed

>>25269888
Proles don’t even give a shit about anything, they’re basically the apathetic class who are fed and housed well enough to have nothing to complain about and they eat up the propaganda for pudding.
They don’t have it good or bad they just exist

>>25269897
She was probably a honey trap, it’s never made clear but it’s likely

>>25269993
>it’s never made clear but it’s likely
no I don't think that's a correct reading, since in the last chapter when Winston meets her again he notes that she was clearly a victim of just as savage torture as he was and has had all the beauty beaten out of her.

>>25269634
Easily the worst cover I've ever seen for 1984, holy shit that's hideous.

>You were forced to read 1984 in school
I wasn't. Where the fuck did you go to school? Bonglandia? LMAO

>>25269799
All he had to do was keep his head down, doctor the newspapers, work out in the morning, go to the community center a few nights a week, make a few babies with his sexless wife, and then maybe in a few years one of his kids would sell him out to the thought police and get him vaporized--but until then would it really be so bad?

>>25269634
He has a sort of vacuous, newspaper like prose which presents a neutral point of view, I think it's easier to distance yourself because of that.

>>25269634
>weirdly comfy
>weirdly
you already know the answer
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