i think it was nice of them to provide their instruction manual.

B-1 83 said:

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Should be required high school reading along with Animal Farm. I doubt it is anymore.

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Both were required when I was in high school in the mid 80's. Of course at the time I didn't appreciate them at all and thought they were stupid. Didn't realize the genius of Orwell until I was probably in my late 30's.

B-1 83 said:

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Should be required high school reading along with Animal Farm. I doubt it is anymore.

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Wasn't required, English teacher was too busy assigning lord of the flies, the red pony and the yearling.

Aggieland Proud said:

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... and the libs have finally read, planned, and in the process of fully implementing it. Surprised it took this long but, I still see hope, albeit only a glimmer, that it won't succeed.

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George Orwell was an ardent anti fascist and democratic socialist. I don't know that he'd be all that dismayed by liberals of today.

I like Orwell and I love his books, but, one also must remember something he said. According to Orwell, every word he wrote was in an effort to further socialism.

He was trying to be the conscience of the movement. He wasn't trying to destroy it.


And if you have not read The Road To Wigan Pier it's worth your time.

B-1 83 said:

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Should be required high school reading along with Animal Farm. I doubt it is anymore.

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Both were required reading for my daughter.
2 years later, when my other kids went through the exact same class, both those books were "replaced" with books by minority authors.

The original English teacher quit and left Austin ISD. They replaced her with a woke commie.

deddog said:

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B-1 83 said:

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Should be required high school reading along with Animal Farm. I doubt it is anymore.

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Both were required reading for my daughter.
2 years later, when my other kids went through the exact same class, both those books were "replaced" with books by minority authors.

The original English teacher quit and left Austin ISD. They replaced her with a woke commie.

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I didn't read them until I was 50. My HS teacher was a lib who loved Faulkner

Aggieland Proud said:

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... and the libs have finally read, planned, and in the process of fully implementing it. Surprised it took this long but, I still see hope, albeit only a glimmer, that it won't succeed.

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That's an interesting take on current events. Might be the first person that I have heard spin it this way.

"I never said no wars!" ie "the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears"

Martels Hammer said:

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I like Orwell and I love his books, but, one also must remember something he said. According to Orwell, every word he wrote was in an effort to further socialism.

He was trying to be the conscience of the movement. He wasn't trying to destroy it.

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Orwell was a "pure" communist in the vein of Trotsky. He felt the Bolsheviks ruined things and most of his warnings dealt with them. To the end he felt that pure communism was the ideal.

A list of things that came from 1984:

• Big Brother
• Memory Hole
• Thoughtcrime
• Doublethink
• Newspeak
• Thought Police
• Ministry of Truth
• 2 + 2 = 5
• War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength

I finally read 1984 in my 40s and I wish I had read it decades ago.

Newspeak is now the norm.

I read 1984 in...1984!

army01 said:

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Aggieland Proud said:

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... and the libs have finally read, planned, and in the process of fully implementing it. Surprised it took this long but, I still see hope, albeit only a glimmer, that it won't succeed.

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That's an interesting take on current events. Might be the first person that I have heard spin it this way.

"I never said no wars!" ie "the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears"

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Yup. It's hilarious watching each extreme of the political spectrum swear up and down that 1984 is a critique of "the other team", and not their team.

techno-ag said:

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Martels Hammer said:

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I like Orwell and I love his books, but, one also must remember something he said. According to Orwell, every word he wrote was in an effort to further socialism.

He was trying to be the conscience of the movement. He wasn't trying to destroy it.

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Orwell was a "pure" communist in the vein of Trotsky. He felt the Bolsheviks ruined things and most of his warnings dealt with them. To the end he felt that pure communism was the ideal.

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Of course the only problem is all attempts at "pure" communism get corrupted. Human nature being what it is, the attempts always devolve into totalitarianism.

Orwell and other "it'll work this time" believers never could see that.

Ervin Burrell said:

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army01 said:

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Aggieland Proud said:

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... and the libs have finally read, planned, and in the process of fully implementing it. Surprised it took this long but, I still see hope, albeit only a glimmer, that it won't succeed.

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That's an interesting take on current events. Might be the first person that I have heard spin it this way.

"I never said no wars!" ie "the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears"

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Yup. It's hilarious watching each extreme of the political spectrum swear up and down that 1984 is a critique of "the other team", and not their team.

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Bro your party tells you believe men can get pregnant and that men in dresses are women and if you fail to comply with the Doublethink you are cancelled. You don't want to play this game

B-1 83 said:

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Should be required high school reading along with Animal Farm. I doubt it is anymore.

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im in my 40s and i quote it all the time. nobody knows wtf im talking about

1984, A Face in the Crowd, and the teachings of Christ are the definitive canon of "boy this is really a scathing indictment of [people who aren't me]"

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Ervin Burrell said:

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army01 said:

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Aggieland Proud said:

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... and the libs have finally read, planned, and in the process of fully implementing it. Surprised it took this long but, I still see hope, albeit only a glimmer, that it won't succeed.

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That's an interesting take on current events. Might be the first person that I have heard spin it this way.

"I never said no wars!" ie "the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears"

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Yup. It's hilarious watching each extreme of the political spectrum swear up and down that 1984 is a critique of "the other team", and not their team.

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Bro your party tells you believe men can get pregnant and that men in dresses are women and if you fail to comply with the Doublethink you are cancelled. You don't want to play this game

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I cna easily give points that both sides are moving this way (and seemingly have been) for quite a while. The sooner we can all come to the realization and admit that both sides are equally ridiculous, the better. Maybe then, we can start to take back control. The way we have been moving is not what 1.) our Redeemer preaches and 2.) what our forefathers had in mind.

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B-1 83 said:

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Should be required high school reading along with Animal Farm. I doubt it is anymore.

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im in my 40s and i quote it all the time. nobody knows wtf im talking about

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That always makes it better for me!