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James Edward Taylor's avatar

Amazing, Celia. You are right to cast your net widely over all these various isms. What they offer is one version or another of the same boot. They all promise a future salvation in exchange for some "temporary" enslavement, torture, and murder in the now. The end justifies the means. This should tell us that ideology itself is a delusion, a mental disease, and an evil. Heaven cannot be brought about by introducing more hell, and we are foolish to fall for any such promise, regardless of the ism it is cloaked in.

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Antipodes's avatar

I have a teenage son.

I have not seen "1984" in any school book lists for him, or for other people's kids for easy over a decade now.

I almost think it has been black listed for schools, on the quiet, hush hush, wink wink.

It was compulsory reading in year 7 for me in the 80-90s era. So in NSW, Aus, most 13-14 year olds had read it, and knew what "Big Brother" and "more equal" meant.

Nowadays I drop a "more equal" comment and early 20 year olds give me a blank expression, like they do not understand the quote, or the reference I am making.

I wonder how many copies of that book resides in Public Libraries nowadays?

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