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balkanparamo · 4 months
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A Brave New World - Paul-Émile Bécat
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oasisr · 4 months
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yes i am a prude, and hypersexuality is ruining friendships, relationships and society as a whole.
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remusjohnslupin · 8 months
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LITERATURE SERIES: Dystopia
“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever… And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon." ― George Orwell (1984)
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crionic-dubs · 1 year
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licorice-lips · 4 months
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So, I already posted this, but I'll give it one more shot:
I think the view that the reality of The Hunger Games is literally happening right now is so right and probably way scarier than people even realize. When we talk about The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins literally just reflected real capitalist-caused issues to fit into a dystopian world, but it's literally here, from the most obvious thing to the simplest detail:
How the riches and concessions from the Capital to loyalist Districts made people from 1, or 2, or so on, think of themselves as closer (in nature) to people of the capital than people in the poorest Districts? That's middle-class thinking, stopping them from realizing they're just as pressed by the Capital as the poorest Districts (the guy from 2 in the last movie, saying he wasn't Snow's slave when WE KNOW he is, everyone is?)?
How the electric fence around 12 is THE ONLY THING stopping people from starving to death since they could very well USE the land? That's literally the argument for legalized occupation movements on unused land, like MST and MTST in Brazil.
The use of addictive drugs and the idea of a "war on drugs" in District 6 to control the population and quite literally render them useless to weaponize such an important thing as medical supplies against the Capital (not that this should happen, but still)? That's literally happening in most poor countries in the world, just as much with legalized drugs - like the COVID vaccine (which Africa had and is still having trouble acquiring because of the Global North) - as with illegal drugs like weed, which is used as justification for police to invade favelas in Brazil, kill innocent people (children especially) and brutalize dozens more each time in a war against poor POC in special.
What they did to Finnick, Cashmere, and Gloss? Lemme tell you two words: Epstein Scandal.
The control of the media? Comms people can tell you: media always has a side, it's not bad in itself, but most of the mainstream media is right-wing and/or conservative, and I'm not talking just regionally, but globally, hence what we're seeing at mainstream media trying to hide important news, manipulate or maintain the narrative of equivalence between Israel and Palestine when we know what is happening is a genocide, an ethnic-based genocide.
The dehumanization of the people from the Districts suffer by the people of the Capital? How billionaires see the working class, how white people view POC, how the North looks at Global South countries - that's exactly there, people.
It's literally there.
But we're not the Capital, not entirely at least. It's true that we live in constant alienation caused by the overwhelming amount of content we have to swallow on a day to day basis — Brave New World, hello? — but we, the working class, are also the ones who pay the price of the "Capital's" need for profit without wanting to actually work — we work so they don't have to, even though we should be the ones to benefit from the result of our own work.
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a-door-to-somewhere · 11 months
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Sometimes I wonder how much fanfic of classical/iconic literature exists because of school projects. Just floating out there. In a drive somewhere. Not to mention that nothing is more unhinged than bored middle/highschoolers being forced to liven up books they might not care about. For every deranged ao3 crossover fic there is an infinitely more deranged crackfic written for the great gatsby or antigone or to kill a mockingbird or whatever by a bored highschooler and his friends for 10th grade English. I wanna read it
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angelunderheaven · 3 months
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animentality · 1 year
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torbooks · 1 year
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"Masterful, audacious storytelling. Relentless, unsentimental, a completely wild ride. I had a time. Talk about Mass Effect beating up Brave New World in a dark alley." —Tamsyn Muir, New York Times bestselling author of The Locked Tomb series
SOME DESPERATE GLORY is an action-packed queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you.
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kafkasapartment · 8 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
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Art: Collage by Joe Webb
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." "In 1984", Huxley added, "people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure." In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”
~Neil Postman
Book: Amusing Ourselves to Death :: by Neil Postman
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fiprobsreblogsalot · 6 days
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I feel like I'm honestly very lucky that I haven't seen much negativity toward Mackie's interview in general and the upcoming Cap 4 in particular, but I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up today and saw people give Sam (and Mackie) shit.
"Bucky isn't going to be in Cap 4" "Steve isn't coming back" so what? It's SAM's movie. Let him be the star of it and get a real good surgeon to pull y'all's heads out of your asses.
The fact that some Sambucky fans also react like this is insane. If you are one of those "shippers" that glorify Bucky and make Sam look like he's just the caretaker or tagging along, feel free to block both of my blogs. I don't welcome you here.
Also while I'm at it, Vietnamese Marvel "fans" are racist as fuck. No I won't discuss this further, and that's that.
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theclassicsreader · 11 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.
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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cursemewithyourkiss · 11 months
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I. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)
II. I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson
III. At Eternity's Gate (2018)
IV. Walden, Henry David Thoreau
V. Dead Poets Society (1989)
VI. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
VII. The Truman Show (1998)
VIII. The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
IX. Bright Star (2009)
X. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
XI. 3×08: Great and Sudden Change, Anne with an E (2017—2019)
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ijustkindalikebooks · 4 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.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
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