more people need to read this book man. the first time i read it (junior yr high school) — i was drawing mass conclusions even then (2011).
fast forward to now. and oh man. lol.
not sure if i can post this here but just my analysis of what is happening in Orwellian relativity. not self promotion (nothing to gain from posting this lol). just want some good conversation from some like minded folk.
give er a read if you’re interested! and lets chat. absolutely lusting for good conversation these days.
peace and love everyone, heres to keeping the information and education alive and well amongst us all 🤍
message is correct
font choice is terrible and hard to read
appreciate the feedback. the title font or body? or both?
body fonts are readable
its the bubbly section ones that are really hard to read but also make it feel too cartoony
appreciate it. i’ll keep the bubble font for my logo only.
i was trying to convey a lightness, or a break in the sometimes serious message of my body text. so when you get to that fun font, it is kind of a recess if you will.
but if it is how you say, it seems more distracting than anything.
again, i appreciate your feedback greatly. all the best :)
I don’t think in 1984 you filled in a form on the Party website to order your Telescreen and Big Brother fulfilled the order and dropped it out for you to install the door bell on your own wifi network.
But, yeah, close enough!
I consider typing and screens to be great contributors to our very own newspeak. If you don't write things by hand, you don't have to know how to spell, auto-correct can do most of it for you. And not that I participate in that sort of world, but I'm aware many office folks and students have emails and whole assignments written by Ai. We're well on our way to illiteracy.
1000%. Since the moment I got my cell phone I shut all the autocorrect and autogrammar off. It’s not much, as I’m still participating in the platform. But the psychological crutch of having tech polish your grammar and spelling is definitely the first step in normalizing or lubricating the idea of all this. For sure. I agree 100%
Sorry bro I meant to reply to you a week ago. I'd recommend reading "the Snowden files". After reading the "guidebook" that is 1984, reading a frontline report from an NSA whistleblower was....shocking
We were going very badly in that direction in the mid to late 2010s but people got spooked by all the language policing and how extrene cancel culture got and there was a significant pushback. Now you have people saying black is white and up is down and a rejection of extremist socialism is actually extremist socialism but those people are just stupid and have not read 1984.
The greatest book ever written ... Orwell's insights are unparalleled. All should pay special attention to "double-think" and "double-speak".
agree! loved it the first moment i read it. stuck with me deeply
The only thing Orwell got wrong was that he simply couldn't imagine a society that would acquiesce to constant, unrelenting surveillance, i.e, smartphones, etc.
absolutely mind boggling to see. when i read it way back, i initially thought how absolutely appalling those notions were.
now not only are they normal, we lust for them. insane
Yes, it's amazing what people will acquiesce to ..
Here's is a book you might want to read. It explains how this has all come about ...
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
by Steve Fraser
Fraser weaves together a rich tapestry of history, statistics and barely suppressed outrage." -- Maura Casey, The Washington Post
From the Revolution through the Civil Rights Movement, Americans mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. But over the last half-century that political will has vanished. In The Age of Acquiescence, Steve Fraser explains why. His account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, The Age of Acquiescence is indispensable for understanding why we no longer fight for a more just society, and how we can revive the great American tradition of resistance in our own time.
Appreciate this a lot, I’ll look into it. If you’re interested as well, I just posted another article on my blog about how platform capitalism errodes our linguistic ability to think and communicate; essentially completing the same goal, if not at the very least as a tool for, the idea in the piece you just sent. I’m on my way into reading your recommendation now!