1984

[xdc magicker]

this is one of those books that i have been meaning to read for years and finally got around to it.

wow

this is an amazing book – naturally i have picked up most of the plot outline and sound bites as so many parts of this book are now part of our culture but it was good to read it properly.

given that it was written back in 1948 it is impressive the developments that Orwell saw coming. I think what would have scared the crap out of him the most is the realization that a lot of the ‘bad’ things he saw coming have come about in under a democratic system of government and not under a communist regime. in particular the use of Double-speak just about sums up our approach to politicians. they know they are lying, we know they are lying but we will move forward as if they were telling the truth! madness.

[xdc the doc]

Superb book – agree 100% Should be required reading for all school kids. The most amusing part for me is his ‘crazeee’ vision of a nightmarish surveillance society.

“The average citizen in the UK is caught on CCTV cameras 300 times a day.” Source – BBC.

http://www.spy.org.uk/reportf.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

[Cha0sEngine]

yeah i loved it..

trouble is i dont think the “nightmarish surveillance society” is that far off… is it?

[xdc the doc]

@Cha0sEngine wrote:

yeah i loved it..

trouble is i dont think the “nightmarish surveillance society” is that far off… is it?

🙄 Its here!! Read my links! 😀

[stan]

Top book.

I had to temp at MBNA for a couple of months once, the training room there was room 101, nobody else got the reference.

[tess]

Excellent book, I watched the film for the first time a few weeks ago, and despite the male full frontal nudity it was still a bloody depressing film. It makes me want to read Animal Farm again – but I don’t ever want to watch that film! Is it really a film, or an urban myth?

[XDC_Wolf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_(video)

I watched part of the documentary, but it was a bit toooo weird a story for me to watch it all, very fucked up.

[XDC wild egg tamer]

i take it you’re refering to the “other” animal farm film there Tess ? It does indeed exist and though i haven’t seen it and have no intention to do so, a few mates have and the things they’ve told me about it is enough reason for me not to bother……….vic may be interested though 😀

[XDCNeonSamurai]

I would have read 1984, but I’m not really into historical dramas.

[xdc magicker]

i always assumed it was a myth

[tess]

Me too, I bet if it exists Insane will have seen it

[xdc magicker]

oh and here is a free copy of 1984

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

they also have animal farm

[tess]

I like to hold a book as I read it, I have never really managed to read much of anything online, I always end up printing things out.

[stan]

@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:

I would have read 1984, but I’m not really into historical dramas.

It started out as sci-fi, does that help? 😀

[XDCNeonSamurai]

@stan wrote:

@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:

I would have read 1984, but I’m not really into historical dramas.

It started out as sci-fi, does that help? 😀

Sorry Stan, just stealing somebody else’s joke about the comic ‘2000AD’. 🙂

I’ve seen the movie Brazil (one of my faves) so I’ll stick with that version of 1984. 😉

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