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This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.

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[–] altz3r0@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm very divided with 1984. It's context is so massively anti-communist, yet it ironically portrayed much of the authoritarianism we see today in capitalist countries. So much so that when I first read it in my teens, it didn't cross my mind that he was taking shots at old Russia! I find it to be one of those few things that are better when you interpret it wrong.