Max Berger: The extent to which George Orwell would have hated Elon Musk can not possibly be overstated.

The extent to which George Orwell would have hated Elon Musk can not possibly be overstated.

Orwell would have written a book imagining Elon in the role of an animal of some sort who then gets beaten to death with hammers at some point

To the last not unaware but unbelieving the impending doom.

I mean, he was not particularly subtle

Well yeah. Hammers.

The IRL example was an ice axe, so…

That made me genuinely laugh.

A meerkat. A scruffy meerkat. A scruffy meerkat with money. A scruffy meerkat that makes just a bit too much noise and gets carried off by a vulture.

A short story, even.

Glue factory

Or blown him up with explosives it’s hard to say imho

I think Orwell would, like all of us, searched for something less terminal. More like a Greek punishment, where Musk receives immortality but gets smashed to pieces every day. Or something like that. The guy who got his liver eaten by eagles every day for instance. But more brutal.

When I think back on Orwell’s best-known novels, they don’t really seem to me like stories where the good guys win out, and the bad people get their commupence.

Nope. He was all about unpalatable truths, he was.

Wait how do I bookmark posts on this app

So a happy ending then?

I'd read it ngl

That tracks.

A muskrat, obviously. But what animal - or would it be a human? Wait! No! Obviously it would be a robot wielding the hammer.

i am so certain he never read 1984

Could be said of so many people who reference Orwell....but yeah definitely this dude.

Are you telling me that these people haven't actually read Orwell?

Why would Orwell care about the American Big Pharma and the effect on it’s citizens? Or the fake democracy? He thought the US was already lost to the worse excesses of capitalism. It wouldn’t have been his nightmare, as far as he was concerned, it had already happened.

Also not sure how big a priority the perfidity of pop music and Hollywood was to Orwell, or whether he truly thought public education was a scourge 😉

Big John Denver fan. I believe Denver’s early demise was instrumental in Orwell’s medical woes. He simply pined away.

That looks like a list made by someone terminally stuck in Americentrism and who never read Orwell.

Strange I know. 🤣

Let alone The Road to Wigan Pier

I just read 1984 for the first time a few months ago and now it upsets me deeply that it’s always right wingers invoking it.

Just wait till you find out what they did to the Matrix

That one legitimately makes me mad. Neo would despise their idea of "red-pilled". Kinda like how Keanu does.

And how Lilly Wachowski does, too.

The cruelest irony.

Conservatives having no good people or stories to represent themselves, having to pretend that anti-capitalist stories do:

Really ironic they consider themselves "conservative" when they are anything but. These same folks have no idea Starship Troopers is mocking them.

God bless Keanu.

He easily counteracts the fact Canada gave the world Jordan Peterson.

Waiting until you discover that Orwell was a big POS and would be doing "internet things" on X today, if he was alive.

Did you make it all the way to the appendix that most people ignore that changes the whole point of 1984?

Yeah, I did. I had just finished reading Act 3 in one sitting and I wanted more, so I was like “I’ll read whatever this is” and I’m glad I did

Read Animal Farm. They believe they are the more equal animals.

And it would not have been subtle! Dude made Stalin a pig to make a point!

…isn’t that Animal Farm, not 1984? I get them confused, because neither are as good as Brave New World

As a fan of all three… Fahrenheit 451 owns.

Fahrenheit is garbage

I can’t argue about a book I haven’t read in its entirety, but I can say I didn’t make it past the ten minute mark in that latest movie adaptation. It was like they were trying to frame the book through a Scientologist lens or something; it was so insanely boring that I just turned it off

The major problem with Fahrenheit 451 and its adaptations is that it only looks like it's about censorship when it's actually about Bradbury thinking that television and movies are innately dangerous media.

I haven’t seen the movie but the book is great. To be fair, I haven’t read it in a while but I’ve it a couple times in my life and it hits different each time. There’s a lot going on it.

Hypodermic needle toothed robotic dogs would disagree. Lol

Orwell would object that it’s called X when all it does is raise the question Y does this exist

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