literally 451°

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• content_educator_94@thelemmy.club ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Brave New World is so much better than 1984 it hurts

  Plus Orwell is so overrated it’s just silly

  He was essentially a British intelligence asset writing think veiled anti communist propaganda.

  Orwells writing often is masquerading as “a commentary on authoritarianism in general” while in reality it was mostly just him hating on the Soviet Union.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We were assigned that book in my Canadian Prairie school during the 70’s. It was called “Celsius 232.778”. /s

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• Sergio@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Literally “Brave New World”.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t forget how this cartoon originated:

  • 2021-01-06: Failed coup by pro-Trump degenerates storming the Capitol (Trump denies involvement but his tweets from the day have definitely played a role).
  • 2021-01-08 Trump is banned from Twitter in wake of the scandal.
  • 2021-01-08 Donald Trump Jr. tweets: "We are living Orwell’s 1984. […]"
  • 2021-01-09 Conservative artist Gary Varvel publishes this cartoon.

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seriously? Man, I thought it was a satire piece the whole time. This was meant to be taken literally?

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, it’s by a guy who thinks inciting a violent attempt to overthrow a major democratic institution should be protected as free speech. See this video by Jacob Geller about why such a wide spectrum of people points to Nineteen Eighty-Four, that’s where I got the information from.

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  • ViscloReader@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No fucking way. What a moron.

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• Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that what temperature a frog boils at?

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  233°C, if anyone wondered.

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  • EisFrei@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kelvin 506

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s probably a reference to Fahrenheit 451

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, almost certainly. Apologies, I thought that was obvious.

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doesn’t hit the same.

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    • svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno, Celsius 233 has a bit of a ring to it, too.

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, but I wondered if it was only because we’re used to it - if the book/film had been called “Celsius 233” all along, then perhaps it would work just as well?

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Turn 451° and walk away.

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• OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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  • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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    • OldSageRick@lemmy.zip ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Ah jacob, my beloved

      He also made a great vid about executions, although it was in all honesty quite hard to watch

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hmm, that’s the kind of thing that might create a brave new world.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The temperature at which books burn.

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  • koorool@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yes. Only it should have been 451° Celsius. It was a mistake in the book name.

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Paper ignites?

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• voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Jokes” Who tf is joking about these references, we’re frantically trying to pull the wool from your eyes but its seemingly impossible.

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So brave

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• Gormadt@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  man really burning a dead comic aren’t we…

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