CTer's ruined Orwellian vision beyong repair?

[Undesired Walrus]

Sigh....
The days when I used to read Brave New World by Huxley, Orwell's 1984, and think... sigh.. Imagine a world like that, imagine if this could actually happen.

Have CTer's destroyed your enjoyment of Orwell and Huxley forever?

[Alareth]

I don't know, I'll let you know after Huxley is released (http://www.huxleygame.com/).

[Par]

This thread's caused me to lose The Game.

[steve s]

Have CTer's destroyed your enjoyment of Orwell and Huxley forever?

1984 has been one of my favorite books for more than 25 years. The troofers haven't really damaged my enjoyment of it. However, I recently rented V for Vendetta and found myself distracted at times thinking "I bet the troofers are completely enraptured with this." It would have been nice to enjoy the movie without having to think of them.

Steve S.

[e^n]

This thread's caused me to lose The Game.

I hate you, and I still believe the sort of authoritarian government envisioned by some people is possible, V for Vendetta was mentioned and while it is a little unrealistic it's not that bad. My favourite of recent years by far is Children of Men where the government's brutality and authority are the only things that have saved Britain up to then.

[The Silver Shadow]

Walrus, the CT's have ruined a lot of things, the main one being science, physics and simple logic. I don't know if it's beyond repair though, I guess that's up to how you interpret what can or cannot be repaired...

[c4ts]

Sigh....
The days when I used to read Brave New World by Huxley, Orwell's 1984, and think... sigh.. Imagine a world like that, imagine if this could actually happen.

Have CTer's destroyed your enjoyment of Orwell and Huxley forever?

On the contrary, I see CTers ironically playing a large part as the Ministry of Truth in similar dystopias.

[ktesibios]

Sigh....
The days when I used to read Brave New World by Huxley, Orwell's 1984, and think... sigh.. Imagine a world like that, imagine if this could actually happen.

Have CTer's destroyed your enjoyment of Orwell and Huxley forever?

No. Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four have their own merits, and neither the antics of troofers nor the authoritarian submission I see too often masquerading as skepticism can alter them.

Incidentally, there's much more to Orwell and Huxley than those two books. If you like to read, try The Road to Wigan Pier and Ape and Essence on for size, just to give two examples.

As far the classic dystopias go, "enjoy" is an odd word to use. While it's possible to take pleasure in reading Orwell's and Huxley's contributions to the genre, I could no more enjoy reading Zamyatin's We than I could enjoy Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved. Both are well worth the effort of reading, but not for enjoyment; their importance, IMHO, lies in their power to provoke reflection on one's own ethics and how they might stand up in such extreme situations.

[Jonnyclueless]

Now I'll never get those NWO collectors coins.