I feel like it doesn’t hold up well specifically because we’re living it now, but I dunno if I agree on it being overrated. For me, feels like ‘out of date’ or maybe just depressing is a better word.
When that stuff was fantastical and served as a warning, it had meaning, now it just makes us sad. It’s like oh yeah, we have that now, but it’s not even the government doing it, just some random snack company and we’re all just going along with it.
Well, I think it fails from a storytelling perspective. Some argue that at the time the ideas were novel, but like… Orwell drew inspiration from Nazi Germany so it can’t have been that novel. As far as Orwell goes, I think Animal Farm was a better read.
I feel like it doesn’t hold up well specifically because we’re living it now, but I dunno if I agree on it being overrated. For me, feels like ‘out of date’ or maybe just depressing is a better word.
When that stuff was fantastical and served as a warning, it had meaning, now it just makes us sad. It’s like oh yeah, we have that now, but it’s not even the government doing it, just some random snack company and we’re all just going along with it.
Well, I think it fails from a storytelling perspective. Some argue that at the time the ideas were novel, but like… Orwell drew inspiration from Nazi Germany so it can’t have been that novel. As far as Orwell goes, I think Animal Farm was a better read.