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crymeariveronceagain · 2 years

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

--- 1984, by George Orwell.

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cant-find-anyone-elseeee · 6 months

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there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.

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lets-get-lit · 3 months

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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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“I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

#quotes #bibliophile #read #books #reads #reading #book #book quotes #quote #book quotations #book quote #book quotation #ray bradbury #fahrenheit 451 #dystopian #dystopia

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troythecatfish · 5 months

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( Well Written ) dystopian worlds are NOT actually attempting to predict the future, They are a critiques of the present.

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charliejaneanders · 1 year

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There will absolutely be mass incarceration and institutionalization of transgender people, if conservatives get their way. It most likely won’t be in camps, but in the same prisons and mental hospitals we already have. It will not look completely new. It will look like a doubling down on the use of systems which disproportionately incarcerate and institutionalize people who are trans. That there is a continuation providing the scaffold for an intesification doesn’t make it any less harsh, but it does make it more likely to work.

You’ve Got to Stop Picturing Camps

#trans #transgender #politics #dystopia #quotes

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kafkasapartment · 9 months

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"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced." - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

#excerpts #quotes #brave new world #freedom #books #thinking #philosophy #democracy #responsibility #education #censorship #dystopia #culture #society

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 9 months

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Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)

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saraharchivee · 5 months

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hunger games parallel

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everbluems · 1 month

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“If you punch me back, you will be sent home, Pixie.” I kick him in the shin.

— Red Rising by Pierce Brown

#book quotes #quotes #bookish #funny books #funny #red rising #pierce brown #darrow au andromedus #darrow of lykos #dystopian fiction #dystopia #young adult fantasy #young adult #young adult fiction

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ritikajyala · 2 years

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10 year old me wanted to save the world.

I was so sure of it. I'd be a saviour, I'd be the hero. I was so sure of an impending doom, the apocalypse, another flood. I guess when you're a child, everything else feels bigger and somehow more important. Movies and books romanticise the grandeur of doom and make you believe it's your job to save everything and everyone. 10 year old me wanted to be a hero. And for years after, I felt stupid for thinking that I could be a saviour, that I could save the world.

I see it as a premonition now, 10 year old me saw what she believed was the world. She saw her older self and it was her world and it was her everything. And she knew she had to save it, save herself.

I hope 10 year old me knows that she is saving the world, I hope she knows I'm trying.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

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mckitterick · 2 days

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The Torment Nexus

Coming soon to a dream near you!

source article: X

source post: X

"Because some dreams are nightmares" - James E Gunn

#cyberpunk dystopia #lucid dreaming #end stage capitalism #quotes #the torment nexus #my screencaps

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starrynightsxo · 5 months

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"No Lucy Gray was no lamb. She was not made out of sugar. She was a victor."

- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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lets-get-lit · 4 months

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

- George Orwell, 1984

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nando161mando · 3 months

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"Observing humans under capitalism and concluding it’s only in our nature to be greedy is like observing humans under water and concluding it’s only in our nature to drown."

- Mark Fisher

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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