'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell

Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by tasuki on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:48PM (#20159393)

> Many of its central concepts such as 'soma', 'hatchery and conditioning centers', and the caste system - alphas to epsilons - don't have readily transposable equivalents in our modern day society

Ah, not yet! Give it time!

- Soma, I'm sure you can imagine

- Conditioning centers... advertisement everywhere?

- Caste system... genetic engineering for the rich

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Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by ahartmetz on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:45PM (#20159810)

Caste system: lack of social mobility

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Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell by nn3 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @09:39PM (#20161040)

North Korea has a caste system based on the family's behavior in WW2.

China is actively working on one based on the citizen score.

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