Mentions (26)
"I know calling everything "just like 1984" has been memefied but 1984 is what this reminds me of. Anyone who has been alive in the last 25 and still believes "terrorists" narratives need to be sent to reeducation camps."
"Basically Wi-fi will increasingly become an omnipresent "camera" able to see everything in your home literally all the time."
"Not to say 'Orwellian' but come on, modern relationships and social dynamics are hard enough without feeling like you have to exist to be a perfect ideal at all times"
"He was shot and killed by his own father during an argument in 1984"
"Nonetheless, our open sub borders and increasingly 1984 nature of reddit means that this trend will continue unchecked."
"Anybody who says there was a better year in music other than 1984 is kind of smoking crack. I mean, if these three albums hit for you then there's really no comparison. Bruce Springsteen had the rock crowd, Prince had the artsier new wave and black audience while also crossing into the mainstream, M"
"even though it was typical Facebook boomer stay woke brother literally 1984 shit"
"Opposition leader Tony Benn purges the soft left from Labour, retakes Downing in '84."
"Wish I could suck George orwells dick. He was so right."
"Orwell is best known for his social commentary. *1984* and *Animal* *Farm* are cornerstones of modern political thought."
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your nose. It was their final, stinkiest command"
"Real Telescreen moment. And this was in the UK"
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a bot stamping out content. Forever."
"Just learned that Michele Foucault died in 1984"
"the comments act like she doesn't have legitimate reason to view it as "Orwellian""
"The response to the CEO killing reminds me of 2 minutes of hate from 1984"
"Imagine a (Re)boot, Stamping on a Human Face— Forever."
"so I think what we need to do from here is learn how to live with it in harmony, like we did with cars by introducing such 1984 concepts as seatbelt and drunk-driving laws"
"they have a whole section, like a quarter of the display, of penguin classics and they aren't like pride and prejudice, 1984, etc."
"i fucking hate TVs, i can't get the idea of the telescreens from 1984 out of my head whenever i see them blaring their horrific audio and their bright stupid lights"
"Handmaids tale is just 1984, but for abortions"
"Was it 1995? 2007? 1984? 2015?"
"What do you guys think about Threads (1984)"
"all they post about is shit like woke (insert american city) mayor or sleepy joe 1984 and other American boomercon ragebait"
"Everyone fixates on the political themes of 1984 and misses the more human and personal observations Winston Smith makes in the books."
"A post from Fauxmoi popped up on my feed and it was about Kanye 'controlling' his wife and all the comments were talking about how they hope her family gets into contact with her and saves her from him so I decided to link and tell them of an article of her actual family saying how they love Kanye a"