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George Orwell's 1984 on the Covington kids
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:01 pm
quote:
"...to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called." - George Orwell, 1984
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:04 pm to musick
that good
dude was a prophet
dude was a prophet
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:08 pm to KeyserSoze999
It's scary how many things in that book are common now and that shite was written in the 40s
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:11 pm to musick
Dammit Musick, I was going to post that one tomorrow.
Just remember, the kid smiling, according to the fascists, is the actual "fascist".
Just remember, the kid smiling, according to the fascists, is the actual "fascist".
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:15 pm to musick
Orwell meant for that book to be a warning but the progressive left considers it a manual
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:30 pm to musick
This post was edited on 4/25/19 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:33 pm to musick
Orwell was unquestionably a time traveler.
That book is unbelievably accurate with today's world. And even more so with the world the left is actively trying to create.
Scary as frick.
That book is unbelievably accurate with today's world. And even more so with the world the left is actively trying to create.
Scary as frick.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 3:49 pm to musick
quote:not really. all of the these goals were published way back then before he wrote the book. they had been discussed at least as far back as Karl Marx. all of these ideas and ideals predate 1900.
It's scary how many things in that book are common now and that shite was written in the 40s
Posted on 1/22/19 at 4:00 pm to musick
I always laugh when the left tries to use Orwell against Republicans
Posted on 1/22/19 at 4:17 pm to musick
Any equally terrifying novel that Orwell himself referenced was The Lord of the World written near 1910 I believe.
Posted on 1/22/19 at 4:26 pm to musick
Nah...the Two Minutes Hate is much more appropriate here:
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
Posted on 1/23/19 at 7:45 pm to SCLibertarian
Goodell and the NFL must have read this
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