Fahrenheit 451 on the other hand is about people only watch TV nowadays, modern art is too abstract and minorities censor racist books. I’m surprised the Right doesn’t use it but I guess they lack the reading skills to realize this is actually for them.
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OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
With the amount of times I see it where it has exactly 0 connections to the book, or is even used by a person arguing for it…
We really should glue orwel to a stick, with the amount he is turning in his grave we would provide free electricity for everyone and still have some leftover
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 5 hours ago
I’ve watched a 45 minute video about exactly that topic and now it’s really amusing to think back about the points whenever such a meme comes up.
Here is the Jakob Geller video :Why does everyone think “1985” agrees with them
Great recommend
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Ah jacob, my beloved
He also made a great vid about executions, although it was in all honesty quite hard to watch
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Hmm, that’s the kind of thing that might create a brave new world.