George Orwell - Blog Posts
Primer escrito que se me ocurrió para Doomsday Daily, el diario del fín de los tiempos. Escritos que son mis reflexiones e imaginaciones sobre como sería el futuro en un universo paralelo, según mi propio analisis de temas atemporales o de la actualidad.
En esta ocasión trato de vislumbrar como en el futuro, la religión seguiría presente, adaptada a las necesidades modernas de la siguiente época. Aquí, las iglesias pasan a ser fortalezas impenetrables, donde inteligencias artificiales autómatas persignan y santifican a los feligreses de manera concisa y eficiente todo, claro, por un precio. Todo dirigido por el Ministerio de la Fé, aludiendo a los ministerios presentes dentro de la obra de George Orwell "1984" donde cada ministerio estaba encargado de controlar cada aspecto de la realidad de la humanidad, un ministerio de la fé entonces, estaría encargado de controlar el ámbito espiritual en este caso.
¿Será la fé y la espiritualidad el último refugio del ser humano ante los implacables avances de la ciencia, vestigios de un pasado ilógico o serán solo un proceso automatizable más?
El texto dice:
Iglesias de Mega Acero ya están funcionando
Bendiciones automatizadas son eficientemente repartidas por nuestra IA. Refierase a cualquiera de nuestras iglesias de Mega Acero para lograr su perdón y un lugar en el cielo. Se paga por adelantado.
Reze, produzca, sea felíz.
(Ministerio de la Fé)
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
▪It was no longer a thing that he created, it was merely a nightmare with which he struggled▪
George Orwell,Keep the aspidistra flying
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I found the photo here: http://danielslackdsu.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-grand-budapest-hotel-childs-play.html?m=1
Same honestly. The way he wrote about the women in the book was also extremely creepy. Like... really you want us to root for the main character who fantasizes about raping and murdering a girl for... being part of some celibacy club? This is a deep work of art?
Also, quite frankly for a dystopian book it was just too over the top and didn't really have a unique message. like "bad stuff is bad" type of message. F451 was a bit better, the themes about mindless entertainment as a distraction was good but in other ways, it was also similar. Maybe I just don't get dystopian books but Brave New World was actually good in my opinion.
please, tell me i’m not the only one who hates 1984 by george orwell with all the heart. everyone always describes it as this incredible book that will change your perception of the world, but honestly ... it didn’t. for me.
This Is 1984
Popping in sunflower seeds
Not worrying about any bad deeds
A few years pass and I'm chewing the same flavor gum
Trying to hum the same hum
Attempting to reverse time
And take back the crime
Of going against the average current
By knowing things like how you need a warrant
The reason therapy exists is because
Some of us see the world as it does
This is 1984
Everyone just decides to ignore,
That the truth is now illegal
It is flying on the oil back of a seagull
Slipping off and getting lost,
Stuck on the back of my shoe like a piece of gum
Thinking about it now, I've been depressed all along
I know what is wrong
It's the fact that I didn't want to be born
Everyday I wake up and mourn
It's not fair; I did not want this world
I want to stay furled
This world is cruel, unjust, horrible, and unfair
I don't like it so beware
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
There’s a line in George Orwell’s 1946 essay “In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse” where, in the course of discussing how Wodehouse’s work hewed closer to a fantasy Edwardian England than a fantasy interwar Britain, he wrote “...and Bertie Wooster, if he did exist, was killed in 1915.” That line has always haunted me in a way, and I believe that both for his good and our own, Bertie should always be kept far away from the horrors of the Great War.
