1984 was suppose to be a warning, not a instruction book.

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>>9118396
>implying we're not living in Brave New World

The ruling classes don't need to torture us to keep society compliant, they just encourage the growth of enormous bread-and-circus industries that keep us nice and calm and sedentary.

People cherry pick and misinterpret it.

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Big Brother did nothing wrong

>>9118396
The French revolution was a mistake, as was the American

>>9118396
>1984 was supposed to be a warning
It wasn't. 1984 was nothing but the description of stuff that started to happen in Soviet Russia about ten years before Orwell wrote the book. Orwell just alienated it with some dystopian elements.
The craziest thing about 1984 is that it's not about the future but the past/presence of the year 1948.

>>9118751
This. Read about early Soviet Russia and the ways in which Stalin consolidated his power into a dictatorship. There are parallels with the current world state

>>9118751
This tbqh. Why is it always considered as a prophecy?

>>9118396

Huxley > Orwell noob

>>9118751
Plus a lot of influence from his time in the Spanish Civil War, particularly in the way information was controlled. In his writing on it he recalled how the press would celebrate victories in battles that never happened and men he knew to be brave branded traitors.

>>9118782
tru

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>>9118407

t. only pretending to have read those books

>>9118407
This. 1984 is only popular because everyone read it in high school.

Also, if you read anything Orwell you MUST also read Homage to Catalonia to properly understand where he's coming from.

>>9118688
>>9118703
How would you feel knowing Orwell was a libertarian socialist (the anarchists were his favourite faction in the spanish civil war), dumb reactionaries?

What's the last thing you read anyway? Great gatsby in 10th grade?

>>9118916
Orwell was a poor thinker and a poor writer, I couldn't care less what his opinions were.

I would encourage you to reflect for a moment on how upset you are by a funny internet picture.

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>>9118396
>What went wrong?
You said 'a instruction book' and not 'an instruction book' for starters.