I read a fact recently that 1984 is the book people most often lie about having read (edit: it apparently was a br*tish survey so may not reflect every Anglo). That lead me to actually pick up the book, and I was struck by how easily the comparisons could be made to contemporary American society. The problem is that, as evident by the original fact, any discussion of the book is dominated by a group of people who never read it and instead evoke it like a magical spell to prove that communism is bad.
I read a fact recently that 1984 is the book people most often lie about having read (edit: it apparently was a br*tish survey so may not reflect every Anglo). That lead me to actually pick up the book, and I was struck by how easily the comparisons could be made to contemporary American society. The problem is that, as evident by the original fact, any discussion of the book is dominated by a group of people who never read it and instead evoke it like a magical spell to prove that communism is bad.
Shit that's so spot on.