Posted on 02/21/2017 10:33:48 AM PST by C19fan
Article says book is about fascism. I thought Orwell made it clear he was writing on Stalinists in the West.
It’s also the year of the greatest ad of all time (directed by Ridley Scott of ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Alien’ fame): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
Yup. 1984 is exactly what Obummer’s regime for the past 8 years has been like.
“Dozens of cinemas across the United States are planning to screen the film adaption of George Orwell’s 1984 in protest of reports that President Donald Trump is allegedly considering cuts to arts funding.”
“1984” the book was not facilitated by arts funding.
“1984” the movie was, AFAIK, not facilitated by arts funding.
And redistribution of both is, AFAIK, not facilitated by arts funding.
Big fat non-sequitur.
Do both. Why limit yourself?
A lack of self-awareness among the benighted elites is what led to Trump’s ascendancy. They wouldn’t understand the dark less of 1984 - even if the lights were left on.
A lack of self-awareness among the benighted elites is what led to Trump’s ascendancy. They wouldn’t understand the dark lesson of 1984 - even if the lights were left on.
More Irony.
And it figures they screen the crappier 80s version vs. the Michael Redgrave and Edmond O’Brien version...
The millennials don’t have the attention span to sit through it, they’ll just watch the Apple commercial instead!
Lol! Hey, maybe we’ll get lucky and they will watch it and actually wake up.... Unfortunately that would require them to engage in something called ‘thinking’.
Just think if all of those libtards gave their money to arts endowments rather than liberal hipster bar corporations and billion dollar movie studios.
That’s racist!
The publisher (I think it was Penguin) hired well known commie agitprop artist Shepard Fairey to design covers for Orwells two antiCommie books. They know nothing of irony.
I heard a lib with degrees in art history talking about liberal and conservative Chinese dynasty eras drawing parallels to today.
These same revisionists would tell you how conservative the USSR commutes were.
Is this the version where in the nude scene the woman looks like she’s got a cat in a headlock.
They are the ones charging people to watch their movies and other media products. Not Trump.
Unbelievable. These authoritarian leftists really don’t see how it’s their side pushing hard for the realization of 1984. It’s their side inventing and promoting modern day New Speak and Double Speak (renamed Political Correctness) coupled with hardcore thought policing and the suppression of free speech and uncomfortable truths. It’s their side rioting, attacking cops, and burning property to try shut down the expression of different opinions. It’s their side that refuses to accept the results of the election. It’s their side praising spies in the government for listening to a private citizen’s phone conversations because he worked for Trump. It’s their side that was all for a reset with Russia but in true “we have always been at war with East Asia” style, they are now desperately trying to restart the Cold War solely to try to win a few political points. And perhaps foremost, it’s their side that wants a gigantic federal government to have almost total control over everything in order to mandate radical egalitarianism and to simply do thing they personally like.
They seem to be entirely blind to what they are fighting for and what the consequences of their anti-freedom, anti-American stances are. There is nothing quite like arrogant, hypocritical lemmings being led over the cliff by their indoctrinators, especially when they are also intensely intolerant and tend toward violence and disorder. This article would make a lot more sense if it said that the radical leftists were watching 1984 because it is their guidebook. Or maybe they are just looking for more Communist-style pithy P.C. slogans to paste all over our public schools.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.