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Colonel Volgin said:
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1984 was very interesting, IMO. Very well worded and gripping.
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It's not a novel is an attempt at a pseudo-intellectual thesis.
Solzhenitsyn was interesting, he had a similar message, but he wrote so much better than Orwell.
 
I thought it raised some very valid points, especially about totalitarianism and oppression in general.

Pseudo-intellectual? It was never supposed to be an ingenius critique, but rather a warning as to what could happen, and especially in terms of Stalinism. I'd definitely say that Orwell put alot of thought into it, and many of its allegations are half true. No, we don't live in a totalitarian state. Yes, I believe that alot of Orwell's ideas regarding the power structure are half-true. We aren't dominated as such, but there is that hierachy in place, not exactly as Orwell described the formation and sustenance of hierachies, but resembling such. It isn't a totalitarian state in which crimethink = death. You can in fact say whatever you like. The masses will dismiss people with radical ideas as insane, mostly. The real threats will be exterminated.

The current system works, but I don't think that it's as "fair" and optimal as it could be.
Really, it depends on how you look at it, who's actually at the top, and the universal wellbeing of the society in question.
 
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It was called the "feel good movie of the year" by Newsweek magazine. In the end, the pig learns he just had to believe in himself all along. Idk wtf you guys are talking about.
 
Uh, had to read that book for an exam... it was dull IMO, dome interesting moments, but pretty dull...

And yeah what Eryth said...
 
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