George Orwell and 1984.

[actaeon277]

Just takes one guy to ruin it for everyone...

If only there was some name to describe people that do that.

 

[oldpink]

"All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
-from Animal Farm


"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Who would have known that Big Brother would turn out to be not one person, but a collective of little authoritarian cry-bullies harnessing political correctness, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes, and every other lunatic fringe contrivance imagined to impose their will?

 

[Kennydale]

I have read 1984 many times over. George Orwell was brilliant. The only thing he got wrong was the DATE !

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

The writings of George Orwell, Upton Sinclair and Edward Abby, all had a strong influence upon me as a young man. Made me very cautious and cynical when listening to the pompous promises of our political overlords. Hence the signature at the bottom of my post.

 

[BugI02]

"People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous."
- Edmund Burke

 

[oldpink]

Yes, Orwell was a visionary, but I would also add Alduous Huxley to the list of those who foresaw the storm clouds that await us all.
Anyone who has read "Brave New World" will know exactly what I'm talking about...and shudder.

 

[2A_Tom]

Oops! Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) from a passport photo taken between 1922 and 1927. Prescient?

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It was a style back then.
Hitler didn't just come up with it himself.

Just takes one guy to ruin it for everyone...

Jude/Judas was once a very popular name.

 

[2A_Tom]

[video=youtube;JXm5hklbBsA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXm5hklbBsA[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Yes, Orwell was a visionary, but I would also add Alduous Huxley to the list of those who foresaw the storm clouds that await us all.
Anyone who has read "Brave New World" will know exactly what I'm talking about...and shudder.

There were debates on which one was more likely to happen.
Turns out, it was kinda a cross between the two.

 

[oldpink]

[video=youtube;JXm5hklbBsA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXm5hklbBsA[/video]

So poignant seeing the man himself literally on his deathbed, yet still able to speak with such clarity.

 

[BugI02]

There were debates on which one was more likely to happen.
Turns out, it was kinda a cross between the two.

And if you want to see where we go from here I recommend William Gibson (Neuromancer and/or Count Zero)