Why do Americlaps love 1984 so much?
Probably because Americans are paranoid about the government, though the tactics of control used by the Party would work just as well on them.
>>8128460
it's their fantasy of what europe is like, that takes their mind off the fact that it is actually what america is like
>>8128513
par·a·noi·a
ˌperəˈnoiə/
noun
a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality.
>>8128551
The societies of 1984 are actually closer to Europe than to America.
>>8128460
Why do Europoors think Americlaps love 1984 so much?
>>8128551
that's enough, Ahmed.
The country's ideals go against the very existence of a dystopia like 1984, so we like to jerk to it knowing we'll never ever end up like that. We're in Huxley's world instead.
Its an informative text on the current state of government.
Honestly, we're way past 1984 at this point.
Orwell couldnt imagine such a bleak future.
America in 2016 is Orwell on estrogen and Sharia.
>>8128460
>Stereotypical Badger
>>8128642
Our world is certainly shallow, but we're not happy and we don't live post-scarcity. In BNW everyone loved it except for that one nerd, but in real life suicide rates are rising.
>>8128460
Do they? If so, I'd guess because it was promoted in the Cold War as a useful anti-Communist text that could be taught in schools.
>>8128652
soooo, let's just biologically damage fetuses in order to engineer separate classes from birth -- thereby doing away with scarcity, find some sort of island where everyone that is patrician would be purged from the shallow rest of the society, and we'll be all set?
