thoughts

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

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.

>>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.

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

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>>6
Fuck you spammer.

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

>>6
I'm reacting.

>>7
I'm reacting.

>>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.

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.

>>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.

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

Once again, Americans think America=the whole world.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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''.

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

>>17
^* fourth

>>17
forth reich

BEHEAD THE FUNCTIONAL DOGS! RPN WILL RISE AGAIN!

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

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

-- me

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

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

>>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?

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

... as in Jackson 5 GET?

>>24

Great, a new twist on spam.

>>24
Fuck off, spammer.

>>26

Fuck off, spammer fucker.

>>27
Fuck off, real spammer fucker.

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Fuck off.

Fuck off what?

>>31
Fuck off please?

THE FUCK ON

>>33
No off.

THE FUCK ONE

>>23
1934-1945.

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

>>37
*COUGH* fail *COUGH*

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

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