| EonBlue |
03-06-2017 06:10 PM |
Mark, you need to stay off of the leftist websites - they are rotting your brain.
Here is a nice commentary I came across about this:
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Lots of people have taken to reading 1984 since Trump's election, supposedly to 'understand' his presidency. If someone's an adult and is just getting around to reading 1984 now, that's a bad enough sign, but thinking it explains Trump makes that person an idiot. His presidency isn't characterized by state surveillance of individuals, elimination of individual rights, and a repressive state that suppresses all criticism of its leaders. The massive protests in America prove that Trump isn't doing what communists say his is.
However there are features of the current political climate that 1984 does reflect. Although they aren't so much elements of a dystopian future as much as they were Orwell's observations about communists of his day. Part of it was the cultish stupidity and the need to create enemies to hysterically vilify in service of the cause.
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There simply is no parallel between "1984" and Trump. None whatsoever. Pretending that there is shows that you are not living in reality.
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