Forwarded from Anony Messenger
this is below, below average.
this is below 1st grade level.
this is below, below average.
this is below 1st grade level.
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Anony Messenger
this is below, below average. this is below 1st grade level.
i wholeheartedly agree
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i realised i didn’t talk about 1984 (yes the book that i read in 1.5 months) so i did sort out my thoughts today and let’s talk about it
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one of the first things that strikes you while reading orwell is how embarrassingly relevant he remains and that feels sickening. 1984 does not age like fine wine.
from the very first chapter, oceania closes in on you. there is no space to breathe. the world orwell constructs is deeply claustrophobic. because of surveillance ofcourse but also because there is no imaginable alternative, no hope, no margin for error. the novel plays with the reader the same way o’brien plays with winston - it allows you to believe, briefly, that resistance might be possible. and then it dismantles that belief brutally. what makes the party truly dangerous is its control over reality itself. “who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past” this is obe of the mottos of oceania. the past is endlessly rewritten, and because there is no external point of reference, truth becomes whatever the party says it is. disagreement is insanity. if something feels wrong, the fault must lie within you, because the party is incapable of error. this is where newspeak becomes one of the most horrifying concepts in the novel. by shrinking language, the party shrinks thought which makes dissent linguistically impossible. complex emotions, ideas, even the desire to question are slowly erased. what remains is a kind of emotional hell where you cannot even articulate what you are missing. privacy, too, is abolished and with it, the possibility of an inner life. thoughts themselves are criminalized. love, sex, loyalty, intimacy - all are redirected toward a single object which is big brother. he functions less like a ruler and more like a possessive lover. no other attachment is permitted to exist. children are trained to mistrust their parents, relationships are sabotaged, celibacy is encouraged, all to ensure that any private emotion becomes a source of fear. passion itself is treated as treason.
but perhaps the most devastating violence in 1984 is the annihilation of memory in my opinion. identity is not merely the body or the thoughts that pass through it. it is the continuous thread of memory that connects who you were to who you are. when that thread is severed, the self collapses. in oceania, memory is constantly revised. eventually, you no longer trust your own recollections. and when memory disappears, so does resistance because there is no longer a "you" left to resist. 1984 is terrifying because it imagines a world where the very idea of freedom cannot be remembered. and once that happens, oppression no longer needs to justify itself.
from the very first chapter, oceania closes in on you. there is no space to breathe. the world orwell constructs is deeply claustrophobic. because of surveillance ofcourse but also because there is no imaginable alternative, no hope, no margin for error. the novel plays with the reader the same way o’brien plays with winston - it allows you to believe, briefly, that resistance might be possible. and then it dismantles that belief brutally. what makes the party truly dangerous is its control over reality itself. “who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past” this is obe of the mottos of oceania. the past is endlessly rewritten, and because there is no external point of reference, truth becomes whatever the party says it is. disagreement is insanity. if something feels wrong, the fault must lie within you, because the party is incapable of error. this is where newspeak becomes one of the most horrifying concepts in the novel. by shrinking language, the party shrinks thought which makes dissent linguistically impossible. complex emotions, ideas, even the desire to question are slowly erased. what remains is a kind of emotional hell where you cannot even articulate what you are missing. privacy, too, is abolished and with it, the possibility of an inner life. thoughts themselves are criminalized. love, sex, loyalty, intimacy - all are redirected toward a single object which is big brother. he functions less like a ruler and more like a possessive lover. no other attachment is permitted to exist. children are trained to mistrust their parents, relationships are sabotaged, celibacy is encouraged, all to ensure that any private emotion becomes a source of fear. passion itself is treated as treason.
but perhaps the most devastating violence in 1984 is the annihilation of memory in my opinion. identity is not merely the body or the thoughts that pass through it. it is the continuous thread of memory that connects who you were to who you are. when that thread is severed, the self collapses. in oceania, memory is constantly revised. eventually, you no longer trust your own recollections. and when memory disappears, so does resistance because there is no longer a "you" left to resist. 1984 is terrifying because it imagines a world where the very idea of freedom cannot be remembered. and once that happens, oppression no longer needs to justify itself.
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