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re: In your opinion, which dystopian world is more congruent with our current reality?
Posted on 4/19/24 at 10:55 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 4/19/24 at 10:55 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:You can even see similarities between the newspaper’s that different castes read in ABNW.
Why BNW is much more applicable than 1984
The Delta Mirror in the book (the newspaper for the Delta’s) with monosyllable words. Pretty similar, IMO, to the way people obtain news through many online sources and apps.
Definitely A Brave New World.
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Posted on 4/19/24 at 10:58 am to Scruffy
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The Delta Mirror in the book (the newspaper for the Delta’s) with monosyllable words. Pretty similar, IMO, to the way people obtain news through many online sources and apps.
Ever read Jet magazine, I swear it is written at elementary level.
also this: BBC - written in pidgin
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:00 am to bad93ex
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a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "Handmaids": women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead.
We’re as far from this, in the modern west, as we could get.
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The novel explores themes of powerless women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, suppression of women's reproductive rights, and the various means by which women resist and try to gain individuality and independence.
It’s a fantasy. The same oppression fantasy the leftists revel in today, but mostly with race/gender. Women fantasize they’re being oppressed bc it gives them meaning, a cause, a struggle. They can have these oppression fantasies from the safety of their comfortable modern western societies.
Women in the strict Muslim countries do not have such oppression fantasies.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:02 am to RogerTheShrubber
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We are somewhere between "A Brave New World" and "1984"
I think we’re getting closer to brave new world than 1984
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:04 am to bad93ex
Snowpiercer
We must do our part to fight climate change to stop this eventual fate
We must do our part to fight climate change to stop this eventual fate
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:05 am to bad93ex
1984 amd bits of a Clockwork Orange.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:06 am to biglego
I always chuckled when I saw a bunch of white women post this shite when Trump was elected. Women in Muslim countries are getting stoned when their own husband cheats... But yeah we are the problem.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:06 am to bad93ex
I am waiting for Mad Max to really try out my off road vehicles.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:07 am to bad93ex
Pidgin is kinda fun to read
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:08 am to OWLFAN86
Everyone thinks we’re in 1984, but everyone thinks it’s their ideological adversary fulfilling the role of big brother.
We are in idiocracy and it’s not really close.
We are in idiocracy and it’s not really close.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:09 am to Jcorye1
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Women in Muslim countries are getting stoned when their own husband cheats... But yeah we are the problem.
A girl in Iran was recently beat to death for not wearing a hijab in public, causing an outcry where other women protested. They were all arrested with several beaten to death.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:10 am to Saunson69
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This board and how world's going to shite To preface, US has 4% global population: 60 of worlds top 100 universities are in the US 4 of worlds top 5 hospital chains are in the US US stock exchanges (Nasdaq and NYSE) own 55% of entire global public market cap US has over 4x as many Nobel Luareates as the next closest country US has more gold medals at the olympics than any other country has in total medals (gold, silver, and bronze combined) US spends as much as or close to on military than the entire rest of world combined Violent crime, murder, and total crime has dropped 50% in the US since 1980-1995 to today People want to move here so bad, that we only accept 3% of green card applications I get everyone on here is over 50 and "rawr back in muh day, everything was better" but at least be objective about it.
Fake news
This post was edited on 4/19/24 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:11 am to Jcorye1
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Women in Muslim countries are getting stoned when their own husband cheats... But yeah we are the problem
I mean I guess if that’s how they cope that’s cool
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:11 am to bad93ex
I would advise people who want to know where this all leads to go on Amazon Prime and watch possibly the best film ever made about such things: The Lives of Others.
I believe that The State is way too interested in our lives and that they have combined the power of The State with business and special interests to advance at all costs the interests of those who will gladly be social conformists and punish those who refuse to comply. America has divided into two camps; the social conformists who will defend the interests of The State at the expense of Individual Liberty, and those will assert their Individual Liberty at the expense of The State and the social conformists.
Do not comply.
I believe that The State is way too interested in our lives and that they have combined the power of The State with business and special interests to advance at all costs the interests of those who will gladly be social conformists and punish those who refuse to comply. America has divided into two camps; the social conformists who will defend the interests of The State at the expense of Individual Liberty, and those will assert their Individual Liberty at the expense of The State and the social conformists.
Do not comply.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:15 am to bad93ex
1984
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:18 am to bad93ex
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The novel explores themes of powerless women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, suppression of women's reproductive rights, and the various means by which women resist and try to gain individuality and independence.
women are literally showing their buttholes on camera for money right now.
"reproductive rights" in HMT is that women that can get pregnant get pimped out (by force of law) to wealthy people. There's 5 or 6 states where you can't get an abortion after the first trimester. So not an apples to oranges.
so any other one than this. we're closer to Hunger Games than Handmaid's Tale.
This post was edited on 4/19/24 at 11:20 am
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:23 am to bad93ex
1984 by far.
The government spies on us, controls the flow of information, uses doublespeak and doublethink, does a 180 on issues and pretends they said it all along, and even has a bogeyman (orange instead of Jewish).
The only things missing are the Anti Sex League, and the memory hole. In the latter case they just don't bother erasing old news stories.
Even in pro life states there are no handmaids. You can avoid pregnancy if you don't want a baby.
The government spies on us, controls the flow of information, uses doublespeak and doublethink, does a 180 on issues and pretends they said it all along, and even has a bogeyman (orange instead of Jewish).
The only things missing are the Anti Sex League, and the memory hole. In the latter case they just don't bother erasing old news stories.
Even in pro life states there are no handmaids. You can avoid pregnancy if you don't want a baby.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:34 am to bad93ex
We are literally living 1984 on so many levels
Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:45 am to bad93ex
The Matrix is a pretty accurate representation of the world we live in. A holographic illusion.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 12:05 pm to bad93ex
I just read Brave New World. It is probably closer than either of those. Between those two, I’d go with 1984.
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