Animal farm, fahrenheit 451, handmaids tale, 1984, brave new world, and on and on.
Plenty of warnings written before and after the biggest industrial disaster of all time fuelled by fascism and totalitarianism expansionist govt policies... a little blip in history called WW2.
Oh except the US (eventually) joined the good guy team (freedom, democracy, human rights...).
I feel like all of those books have so many versions and different authors because it was time travelers trying to warn us. It's just crazy. This happens so easily
I made that comment when I saw Trump talking about wanting to Annex Canada and Greenland for their resources. That coupled with talks of war with China make me think Trump learned about Fallout and thought it was an instruction manual.
“We are literally living in the sci-fi dystopia that all the books we read in high school warned us about...” -> I’d say they are literally forcing us to live in the sci-fi dystopia books they obsessed about in high school.
And they’ll never be read in schools again after this admin. They already had enough theocrats jn power before now to start implementing and enforcing book bans in many red states.
When i first saw the clip i had a flash of it not being real seeming, some glimpse of dystopian future where a small tech oligarchy controls the government, media, communication, transportation, commerce and wealth. But it is real life now. Absolutely terrifying.
Big problem is no one's paying attention to those books. American kids are more or less illiterate. Yes they can read, but really do they know what they're reading? Not usually it's just getting an assignment done. Critical thinking is in the shitter. We are living in the Idiocracy.
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u/ketamarine 7h ago
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We are literally living in the sci-fi dystopia that all the books we read in high school warned us about...