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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 16:25:49 GMT
Confession time. While I have read excerpts over the years of 1984 I actually had never read it until this past week. Since I spent a large part of Thursday and Friday in airports or flying I got it completely read. Let me just say WOW. Scary and dark and I see enough of current happenings with the drive to destroy and rewrite history, the liberal control of politics and destruction of the family unit, that I found the book to be one heck of a warning. It should be required reading. Maybe then we could save our society from the dark path it is traveling.
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Post by BrewDaddy on Feb 16, 2019 20:14:34 GMT
The book 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual....
And I agree with you completely....
You should check out Animal Farm if you haven't read it already... "Four legs good... Two legs BETTER".... When I read that line in the context of the book, it sent chills down my spine when I started to grasp just what the socialists are capable of and the lengths they'll go to achieve it. I rank it as one of the most important books I've ever read.
BD
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Post by TxGal on Feb 16, 2019 21:40:03 GMT
May I also suggest Brave New World, if you haven't read it already.
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Post by themotherhen on Feb 16, 2019 22:08:35 GMT
All three are very good. They should definitely be required reading in school, all are read at our house. We usually read Animal Farm in middle school the first time, then again in high school. 1984 and Brave New World are high school reading in our house. TxGal, when do your bees read them?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 22:14:13 GMT
May I also suggest Brave New World, if you haven't read it already. I find the contrasts between the books fascinating.
The setting for Brave New World is, on the surface, squeaky clean and rosy. 1984 is gritty, grimy, and dark.
Yet both books outline a world where you'd better get in line - or else.
Chilling to the bone, accurate in nearly every aspect of the warning. Both used, as BrewDaddy noted, as instruction manuals by the elite.
Nick and I are getting ready to order the book Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century by John Marini. It just came out last month, so we'll be paying close to retail, but it looks good.
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Post by TxGal on Feb 16, 2019 23:02:03 GMT
All three are very good. They should definitely be required reading in school, all are read at our house. We usually read Animal Farm in middle school the first time, then again in high school. 1984 and Brave New World are high school reading in our house. TxGal, when do your bees read them? We're such kindred spirits. Us too! to everything you just said.
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Post by themotherhen on Feb 17, 2019 1:02:40 GMT
TxGal, I tip my hat to you! I am only schooling 3 now, I can't imagine teaching 8! Maybe we could do a book swap sometime.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 2:01:02 GMT
I have read Animal Farm. Many years ago. The pigs as rulers and the poor old work horse promised a retirement and then sent off to slaughter. So sad. Yet close to what we are seeing today with our healthcare less than ideal for elderly. Brave New World I have not read. I’ll have to look into it.
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Post by TxGal on Feb 17, 2019 3:31:00 GMT
TxGal, I tip my hat to you! I am only schooling 3 now, I can't imagine teaching 8! Maybe we could do a book swap sometime. I think we should.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 14:51:45 GMT
I have read Animal Farm. Many years ago. The pigs as rulers and the poor old work horse promised a retirement and then sent off to slaughter. So sad. Yet close to what we are seeing today with our healthcare less than ideal for elderly. Brave New World I have not read. I’ll have to look into it. That part about the workhorses reminded me of the suicide clinics in Soylent Green - only not nearly as humane as the clinics.
<shudder>
We live in a scary world.
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