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I've not read 1984 by George Orwell this year yet. But I will, in the next few days. Looking at what is and has been happening in USA since Trump became president is disgraceful and scary.
Did you know that the TVs in FDA building are tuned to Fox news and the channel cannot be changed? Yeah. This is what dictorships look like. It reminds me of 1984 where the citizens have access to only 1 new source.
— May 09, 2017 07:14PM
Did you know that the TVs in FDA building are tuned to Fox news and the channel cannot be changed? Yeah. This is what dictorships look like. It reminds me of 1984 where the citizens have access to only 1 new source.
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May 10, 2017 12:22AM
A lot of dystopian novels seem to be pretty accurate about present-day America :/ It's very surreal
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@Leah Do you want be scared even more? What if the resemblance of the state and nature of politics and government in current day America with dystopian novels is not a coincidence? What if these assholes running whole nations get these ideas from books like 1984? I mean, isn't it as possible as anything. You and I and a billion look at 1984 and shudder to think of 'what if this becomes reality'. You and I and a billion look at 1984 and say, we should take care that our world never comes to this. But what if there are people who look at 1984, the big brother, the way information is held back and false propoganda is spread to the citizens as in the novel for whatever ends, and say, "hey. this is exactly what our country needs". Isn't it a possibility that there will be people who would base their perosnal constitution off of something like 1984?
This all sounds like something a pessimist conspiracy theorist bullshit talk until we look around and realise that these kinda things are already hapoening. not just in backward and underdeveloped countries but in superpowers such as USA.
It's hard to have a positive opinion about the future of mankind when shit like this happens and becomes the norm.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the US's current leaders thought Brave New World/1984/Handmaid's Tale were more of 'how to' guides than terrifying works of fiction. Restrict access to news, drug the population with never ending media, essentially make being a woman a pre-existing condition...
@Leah Exactly. Regarding the health care bill, it would not be surprising if "living" is a pre-existing condition according to their laws and hence health care won't be provided to anyone with this pre-existing condition. It is sickening when 'politicians' who ought to work towards the welfare of the whole nation put their party or personal/religious ideologies ahead of everything else. It's even worse for women and minorities.
Sigh. I've not yet read 'Brave New World'. The Handmaid's Tale too. Will get to them soon..
Jayanth, every avenue I go down leads back to the fact that being human is a preexisting condition. If I don't fix a tooth in 6 months, does that become preexisting condition? How long does it take for undiagnosed cancer to become preexisting? And being a woman is already considered a condition, anyway, of some inferior sort.
