The Picture Thread Vol. 5 - All killer, no filler

[stoat2337 Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close stoat2337]

Awwww, it didn't work when I tried it

[Orion Pax Iolande's Bodyguard Find all posts View Profile Close Orion Pax]

There are also other techniques. BNW includes using drugs on people who don't think like everybody else thinks.

I meant that the premise of the 1984 is flawed from the get go. The society we should be so afraid oh, started after a devastating war. There´s too much variabales thing that could stop that.

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I meant that the premise of the 1984 is flawed from the get go. The society we should be so afraid oh, started after a devastating war. There´s too much variabales thing that could stop that.

The only flaw is the assumption that so much could be brought under that sort of control in so short a time. The general premise isn't so hard to believe, considering the very large difference in acceptable government micromanagement now vs when I was a child. A lot has changed in the three short decades I've been alive.

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The only flaw is the assumption that so much could be brought under that sort of control in so short a time. The general premise isn't so hard to believe, considering the very large difference in acceptable government micromanagement now vs when I was a child. A lot has changed in the three short decades I've been alive.

I did an university paper about the book for my class of State Theories. And I pointed that out. I merely said the premise relies on the society after WWIII (or whatever major war happen).

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

I meant that the premise of the 1984 is flawed from the get go. The society we should be so afraid oh, started after a devastating war. There´s too much variabales thing that could stop that.

Probably. I find it more interesting that elements seem quite possible. Newspeak, seems to me, like a very real threat, it's just not necessarily state-controlled (in our society, anyway; you could make comparisons to China's use of limiting search engine hits). In English, although technical words and pseudo-internet words are added all the time, the complexity of sentence structure and the use of synonyms is decreasing.

I remember one of my professors saying Brave New World was much more likely than 1984. There, it is not a despotic, single dictator that controls all so much as popular consent suppresses individuality (via drugs, media, and government). In American democracy, the oppression of the masses (which even Thomas Jefferson feared) seems much more likely (Jim Crow laws; McCarthyism, whatever).

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Hipster DC

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nice one!!

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That's kinda creepy...

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[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

That's kinda creepy...

I know, right?

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Ahhh kill it! Kill it with fire!

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Hipster DC

Oh hell no. Don't give them any ideas.