• Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Animal Farm is a joke. A book for brainwashing children. I feel like you have to have not read many books in your life to think its something worth reading to learn about anti-communism (which is funny because this is an anti-fascist list). I guess the allegory is simple enough to understand that it makes these manchildren feel smart.

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      Orwell is peddled to kids/teens because its much more digestible at those ages. Its sad that people can read/reread 1984 as an adult and believe its actually pithy rather than being simple, weird (god the fucking sex stuff), and largely not compatible with the reality we live in. It takes on an insane amount of irony when one realizes the kind of work Orwell was doing for the British government, or the fact that the UK has already adopted a level of surveillance that is honestly more legitimately capable than whats even described in 1984!

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        When I tried and failed to read 1984 I was shocked at how little it was interested in the politics of the setting, and instead really really wanted to tell you about this dudes torrid fling with his manic pixie dream girl. Given how much people reference it about fascism I was expecting something much different.

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          The sad thing is that the sex stuff could maybe have been written in a far better way, but its not and its just weird/creepy. Like I genuinely assume Orwell was trying to do something more interesting there but it fails to land on anything other than a naive reader. Even the teenager me who was willing to accept quite a bit of slop had a hard time with it. I assume people just reference it because, like Harry Potter, its one of the few books they ever engaged with.

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        Nobody seems to find it odd that so many state-funded schools encourage students to read his two most famous works. If Orwell only wanted to warn future generations of ‘big government’, no dictatorship of the bourgeoisie would ever promote his books.