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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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At no point in my lifetime has there not been war going on in the Middle East. Are we going to run out of boots or faces first I wonder? Or will it really just last forever?

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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

1984 is an anti-tyranny dystopia that has more bad readings than any other work I can think of.

The essential problem isn't new-speak, the five minute hate, constant war, one-party rule, rat-based psychotorture, or even ubiquitous surveillance. Rather, it's the abandonment of truth. It's not nearly so bad if Big Brother is Watching, except that Big Brother lies.

(And Orwell wasn't even inventing the danger out of whole cloth: both the German Nazi and Russian Communist tyrannies had well trod the path of internal propaganda and historical revisionism)

((AND you don't have to squint all that hard to argure that 1984's Britian was most plausibly a pariah state that didn't actually have any power beyond its aquatic border...))

Like nearly all science fiction, 1984 wasn't so much written about its future as it was written about the past.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 point 2 hours ago

I know. And yet all of that lines up with the modern "regime" we live in