Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell
by maxxxxx on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:01PM
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I think today's growing inequality together with distraction through social networks and "fake" news translates pretty well to Brave New World. Add to that improvements in gene manipulation over the next decades and it's easy to see how the world may split up into castes that have genetic ability based on wealth.
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Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell
by Nelson69 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:24PM
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I was just going to say that "Newspeak" in 1984 basically seems like exactly what is going on with "fake news."
On the surface, it just seems absurd and fascinating in a certain way that we can have video footage of the president saying one then and then he can just claim it's "fake news" and a sizable chunk of the populous seems to be cool with it.
Re:'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell
by maxxxxx on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:43PM
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Or the stock market keeps going up steadily over the last 10 years and one half thinks it was a complete disaster until 2017 and then glorious and the other half thinks everything went to hell in 2017. Same for the development of employment rate and other indicators.