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Brave New World was definitely the better book. 1984 is fascism through a military-police state. Brave New World is fascism through systematic mind control beginning at birth, which was far more fascinating to read about.
I must say though, I'm a little tired of all the Facebook posts that say "brave new world has finally come," or "1984 is here." (People of both political persuasions love to use them.)
I have 1984 on my book shelf. About two years ago, I re-read it because the Ministry of Truth was anything but. It was for propaganda. It reminded me of some of the renaming that has been going on in the last few years. I REALLY think of it when I read what they titled some of these Acts passed by Congress.
If I am remembering the book correctly, it has a chilling final line. No spoilers here, but it was 4 words ...
I read it way before 1984 and liked it a lot, if "like" is the right word. It was disturbing. This thread has reminded me that it's probably time to read it again.
Click Table of Contents at the bottom, to choose a chapter.
DUring the Cold War, people read it and said Wow, so that's that it's like in the USSR.
Now, people read it and say Wow, so that's where America is going. The USA Patriot Act should be included as an Appendix in all new editions. Of special interest in that regard, is Part 2 Chapter 9, which explains the historical and political context from which 1984 evolved. Scroll down in that chapter to the famous book-within-a-book,
. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
I read this a month ago. It was okay. Very anti socialism and very pro capitalism from what I remember and it bothered me. Imo, it's not as good as I was hoping.
Brave New World was definitely the better book. 1984 is fascism through a military-police state. Brave New World is fascism through systematic mind control beginning at birth, which was far more fascinating to read about.
I must say though, I'm a little tired of all the Facebook posts that say "brave new world has finally come," or "1984 is here." (People of both political persuasions love to use them.)
I agree. I liked Brave New World a lot more than 1984.
I read this a month ago. It was okay. Very anti socialism and very pro capitalism from what I remember and it bothered me. Imo, it's not as good as I was hoping.
It wasn't anti socialist at all, Orwell was a socialist, he fought with Revoloutionary Catalonia, wasn't pro-capitalism at all either in fact he was taking authoritarian state capitalist countries like USSR as a precedent for the totalitarianism in his book 1984, and their betrayal of the Russian Revolution in his book Animal Farm.
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