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re: What are your Top 5 books about American Politics?
Posted on 5/11/24 at 4:07 pm to OccamsStubble
Posted on 5/11/24 at 4:07 pm to OccamsStubble
I mean if we’re gonna do fictional allegories, we may as well add 1984.
But I meant nonfiction
But I meant nonfiction
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Posted on 5/11/24 at 4:20 pm to Wednesday
If they teach more about American politics than non-fiction books claiming to teach you about American Politics, then, why not? Still, I’d rotate 1984 somewhere in the 7-8 range.
And I’d toss in Camp of the Saints in the six spot, considering the past three years.
And I’d toss in Camp of the Saints in the six spot, considering the past three years.
This post was edited on 5/11/24 at 9:08 pm
Posted on 5/11/24 at 4:34 pm to Wednesday
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mean if we’re gonna do fictional allegories, we may as well add 1984.
I remember pondering whether the oppressive surveillance state of 1984 or the drug induced sexual hedonism of Brave New World better predicted the future.
Orwell predicted a future in which the State maintains control through brainwashing, terror and war while Huxley envisioned a future in which citizens are conditioned by the State to embrace their servitude by becoming slaves to pleasure.
I once leaned toward believing that BNW better predicted the future yet it increasingly seems that we are transforming into a society that maintains the worst aspects of both works.
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