It's always the same book, too. It's always 1984, and never anything like Animal Farm, or Brave New World. It's like how millennials are with Harry Potter.
Real talk, George Orwell was right about a lot of things, but 1984 was not one of them-at least when it comes to places in the West. The only places it actually fits is in actual totalitarian shitholes like China, and North Korea, but not in the actual West.
I re-read 1984 a few years ago because I hadn't in a long time, and it's not... totally divorced from items in the world. "Orwellian" is just horribly abused by retards vaguely aware of what it is.
A surveillance state in which neighbors and children snitch on each other exists, the attempt to re-cast the female lead of Juno as an mpreg enthusiast does draw some comparisons to the Ministry of Truth, the two minutes' rage captures well peoples' propensity to work themselves up into frothing, ritualistic rages over absolutely nothing, the worship and hatred of symbolic idols that no-one can attach any actual meaning or purpose to, so-on. All of that exists in some degree, just not to the ironclad ABSOLUTE that people who read the sparknotes assume.
Its most prophetic statement was the description of class battles. It's in that forbidden book that they read - the upper class wants to preserve the order and insulate itself, the middle class wants to switch places with the upper class, and the lower class wants equality. The middle class uses the lower class as a bludgeon against those in power, and then abandons them to their fate -- that was good stuff.
However, it's abundantly clear that most of the people who reference 1984 have never fucking read it. The text is dry and the story meanders, and it's hard to find a character you really cheer on and root for. In terms of describing consumerism, herd mentality, "don't rock the boat," and so on, yeah - it gets thoroughly drubbed by BNW.
Really, the world needs better dystopian writers and novels from a more recent era, but there aren't a whole lot. Late-90s early-00s Japanese shit, like MGS2 or SUDA51's nonsense seem to have some of it, but on the whole what creative dystopias and warnings are out there lie buried beneath
endless trash.
I disagree that his 2020 campaign had nothing, he had the same populist message he had in 2016, Biden had NotDrumph!?!?!?! and a hilariously awful pick for VP. That said, if Biden had won a narrow victory, maybe I could believe that said victory was legitimate, but not by the margins he supposedly won here. The Dems cheated, the GOPe refused to fight the fraud and that is why Biden/Harris will likely be sworn in come January 20th.
Hillary Clinton, one of the most universally reviled and despised politicians of the modern era, beat Trump in the popular vote by about three million votes. Trump's margin of victory in the swing states that sealed the deal was somewhere around 80k. And the democrats had a fairly anemic turnout, especially compared to Obama.
Joe Biden has callbacks to the Obama admin, not drumpf, and the fact that he's not the most universally reviled and despised politician of the modern era. Of course the figurative corpse would outperform clinton - a literal corpse would outperform her.
