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Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 17:43

i think that the world we live in resembles the book 1984 in many ways

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 17:45

I would agree, but also add that it resembles Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in some ways as well. Both are highly recommended reads.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 22:49

>>2
The world does not resemble Brave New World in any way. You are very asinine and shallow to have "thought" such a thing. Please leave my thread for the mentally capable among us and return to /b/, Thanks.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 23:03

I study English Literature at an English university.
Everyone in this thread can go fuck themselves.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 23:06

Jackson 5 GET
>>6
Fuck you spammer.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 23:21

>>5
stop ruining the board you fucking psychotic rude fuck!

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-30 23:30

>>6
I'm reacting.

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-31 14:50

>>7
I'm reacting.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 18:03

>>3
The world does not resemble Brave New World in any way.
Drug use, (cannabis use, underground market for prescription pills, etc.) recreational sex (promoted even from early childhood, sexualization of children, etc.), contraceptives (condoms, birth control pills, the sexual revolution of the 1960s, etc.). Banal consumerism (don't fix anything, replace, BUY, BUY, BUY!), spending time alone is considered strange or out of the ordinary ("clubbing", drinking with people, etc.). Not that this stuff didn't exist during Aldous Huxley's time, but it certainty is pushed today (through media and such) as the "norm".

This is all in chapters 1–6 in the book. Did you ever read it? I agree that the world is not 100% just like Brave New World, but to say that elements within the book are not present in modern society is foolhardy.

You are very asinine and shallow to have "thought" such a thing.
You are very asinine to think that it's not. Read above.
Please leave my thread for the mentally capable among us and return to /b/, Thanks.
Rude! Perhaps you should follow your own advice and lead by example?

>>4
Very rude. Why don't you head on back to /b/ where your rudeness and belligerency is most welcomed?

>>6
Agreed.

>>7
Very, very rude. Just take a good look at yourself.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 18:44

We've been over this before.

The world is not like 1984 at all. Only retarded teenagers who feel "oppressed" for having to go school would think something like that. There's a good reason why only children listen to Rage Against the Machine, you know.

Huxley's vision of the future is far more accurate. People rotting in their own empty happiness? Sound familiar to me.

Why, there's even an image that someone made about this issue - that Orwell believed that "the things we hate will destroy us," and Huxley believed that "the things we love will destroy us." The only slightly applicable thing from 1984 in our time was the "Two Minutes Hate," where people are distracted from how shitty their lives are by being made to hate something. In our case, people are made to hate each other (left-wing versus right-wing) for no good reason, in order to distract them from just how boring their lives are. Ever wonder why people who actually give shit about politics are so unlikeable? They don't have anything else in their lives.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 18:56

>>10
The world is not like 1984 at all.
Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, CCTV cameras, license plate traffic cameras, huge national databases, Social Security numbers, CIA, FBI, MI6, and whatever three letter acronym used for similar government agencies. I could go on, and on.

I will agree that the world is heading more so in the direction of Brave New World rather than 1984.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 20:04

We're heading for hyper-inflation. Think Weimar Republic. At that point will be the rise of the FIFTH REICH...

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 20:23

Once again, Americans think America=the whole world.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 21:32

>>13
As America goes, so goes the rest of the world.
If something catastrophic happens in America, economically or otherwise, the rest of the world will be changed.

Not so much with Mexico, Chad, New Zealand and I could go on with the other 97% perscent of countries in the world that really don't make a big difference in the world.

Sounds a little arrogant maybe, but it's true.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 21:34

>>11
No you're wrong and asinine. Once the debt bubble burst all the world's people will lose their luxuries and return to dark struggles where only the iron fist will silence them. The world is more like 1984 because it is fantasy to think we can maintain this level of comfort and distraction. Typical shallow teenager.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 21:37

>>15
No you're wrong and asinine. Once the debt bubble burst all the world's people will lose their luxuries and return to dark struggles where only the iron fist will silence them.
Perhaps in the future this will happen, but right now it's much more looking like Brave New World.

Typical shallow teenager.
Fuck off, ``faggot''.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 21:39

>>12
FIFTH REICH
Don't you mean forth? Unless I'm missing something here, Cream?

Name: >>17 2010-08-02 21:44

>>17
* fourth

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 21:58

>>17
forth reich

BEHEAD THE FUNCTIONAL DOGS! RPN WILL RISE AGAIN!

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-02 22:10

>>17
The Fourth Reich was already attempted and very short lived...

"FROM THE ASHES OF THE FOURTH, THE FIFTH SHALL RISE.."

-- me

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 0:44

>>14
You think china or india gives a shit how america does things and tries to emulate it?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 1:41

>>21
Well, we do consume a large chunk of the cheap crap they manufacture.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 1:46

>>20
The Fourth Reich was already attempted and very short lived...
When? Was it somewhere in between the time of allied occupation of postwar Germany and reunification?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:07

>>20
"FROM THE ASHES OF THE FOURTH, THE FIFTH SHALL RISE.."

... as in Jackson 5 GET?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:16

>>24

Great, a new twist on spam.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:17

>>24
Fuck off, spammer.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:18

>>26

Fuck off, spammer fucker.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:20

>>27
Fuck off, real spammer fucker.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:21

Fuck off, real spammer fucker fucker.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:23

Fuck off.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:25

Fuck off what?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 2:40

>>31
Fuck off please?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 6:29

THE FUCK ON

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 7:23

>>33
No off.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:09

THE FUCK ONE

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:25

>>23
1934-1945.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:27

[b]FROM THE ASHES OF THE FOURTH, THE JACKSON 5 WILL RISE..[/b}

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:45

>>37
*COUGH* fail *COUGH*

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:46

>>38
*COUGH* http://boards.4chan.org/b/ *COUGH*

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:48

Oh so no pointing out that he failed. Would you prefer I say fuck off spammer? Then get annoyed for rude language.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:49

>>40
http://boards.4chan.org/b/?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 8:51

>>41
Kindly answer my question with something other than a referral to /b/.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 9:01

>>42
http://boards.4chan.org/b/

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-03 12:38

Brave new world most certainly.  We're amusing ourselves yet nothing we do in this world really matters.  The whole system is geared to the bizaare Hakuna Matata recreational drug and entertainment indusries with rampant pointless consumerism thrown in.  I don't think we're even really living a life so much as marking time before we croak.  Just like BNW.  1984 in a lot of ways is less scary -- they were open about the position of humans in the system -- Obey or BB will get you.  OUr system makes us a buying machine and a childlike entertainment user, and simply kills our spirit.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-05 19:53

>>10
The world is not like 1984 at all.
Political correctness can be argued to be a form of newspeak. Same thing with changing the words of things and their meaning. "Landfill" for dump, "wetlands" for swamps, as two examples.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 1:08

"customer service" for "fuck off"

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 1:37

>>46
Yeah! There ya go! You got it.

Name: ill post it later 2010-08-06 18:24

how would i go about streaming my suicide live here, someone told me i could do that if i wanted to. i dont exatly have someone to post it after im gone so i have to to it live. any ideas?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 18:27

>>48
streaming video is for faggots and so is flash. gtfo plz.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 18:32

so what would you sugest i do?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 18:39

since streaming video is for fags i guess ill just broadcast it out of my ass like #49? help me out here. thought this would be good shit

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 19:08

good shit
oxymoron

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-06 21:59

>>49
No. You GTFO.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-07 3:04

ok 53. am i doin this or not?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-07 3:21

>>54
Doing what?

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-07 14:13

streaming my suicide live somewhere either here or somewhere else that i can ive. im just not sure how to do it.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-07 14:17

>>56
I don't know what that has to do with a thread topic discussing the modern world as being akin to the plots of 1984 and Brave New World. But why? Why do you want to commit suicide live in front of strangers? Your life cannot be that bad.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-07 15:03

>>57 nevermind my reasons. im not sure how this forum works so i kinda winged it where i posted. if you know a better place tell me. i fucked up on posting it here i didnt know what i was doing. and i love the internet and t fucked up things that go on there. all the fucking 2 girls 1 cup and goatse and all the messed up fucked up shit you can find here. i siad to hell with it if im gunna go ill do it on the internet, like i said i have my reasons. someone told me i might be able to do it here or find out where to do it from here.

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-08 22:26

>>58
Well, to create a new thread, just scroll down to the bottom of the main page of this board and when you're done writing out the subject and body text, click the "create new thread" button.
nevermind my reasons
But I'm genuinely curious.
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