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Get StartedAside from the incoherent right-wing babbling by the author of the article...
What competing ideas were there in 1984? And how would you balance them?
... Although, I'm not sure what the go-to books are to set against Atlas Shrugged and 1984...
ones that attempt to justify curtailing civil rights and oppression?
On some level, the opposite of 1984 could be A Brave New World....
1984: sexuality and reproduction controlled and oppressed, everyone controlled and watched through government program, constant cold war with another power
BNW: sexuality and reproduction controlled through genetic manipulation and programing from childhood, yet sexuality expressed wildly; everyone controlled via caste system based upon genetics and programming from childhood; no mention of opposing power, only outcasts living in poor conditions.
Two opposing visions of how technology and social evolution could lead to totalitarian governments... it's just that 1984 was in your face and BNW was much more subtle. Both futures were terrifying in their own way. 1984 runaway fascism and BNW runaway... eugenics/extreme liberalism gone wrong?
On some level, the opposite of 1984 could be A Brave New World....
1984: sexuality and reproduction controlled and oppressed, everyone controlled and watched through government program, constant cold war with another power
BNW: sexuality and reproduction controlled through genetic manipulation and programing from childhood, yet sexuality expressed wildly; everyone controlled via caste system based upon genetics and programming from childhood; no mention of opposing power, only outcasts living in poor conditions.
Two opposing visions of how technology and social evolution could lead to totalitarian governments... it's just that 1984 was in your face and BNW was much more subtle. Both futures were terrifying in their own way. 1984 runaway fascism and BNW runaway... eugenics/extreme liberalism gone wrong?
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