10th grade English class I think.. I couldn't remember if I had read this or not before so I did read it again a few months ago. I am pretty sure that I got a LOT more out of it this time. It is a great little book. Were Orwell and Huxley clinically depressed? Uber pessimistic? They seem so sure that society is headed to a dark place. The reality is that things generally get better over all ( ..I think, but maybe I am just one of the brainwashed pawns on their novels..), but crushing oppression makes a much better source of a struggle in a book. It is not as interesting to read about the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Wait.. I think I just said that totalitarianism is more fun. I'll go with it. ALL HAIL ME!
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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensation for misery.. happiness is never grand.
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