To understand many references here on Voat and similar sites, 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell. I frequent thrift stores and buy copies every time they appear on shelves, I read each one about every six or nine months. 1984 was a dystopian view of the future written in 1948 (Orwell transposed the last two numbers to get the year of his novel); it is often said that it was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to manual. Animal Farm is written as a children's story, but the message is everything but a child's tale, it was written as a warning to show what socialist societies inevitably succumb to and how they degenerate to that point.
Similarly, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They are both written on a 10-11th grade level, and not hard to read. They are also dystopian future novels in which the authors were trying to extrapolate which way the political and social climates were trending. Aldous Huxley as a person is also worth a study, if even spending an hour or so online visiting Wiki links. He was a major player in the eugenics movement in the earlier part of the 20th century.
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To understand many references here on Voat and similar sites, 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell. I frequent thrift stores and buy copies every time they appear on shelves, I read each one about every six or nine months. 1984 was a dystopian view of the future written in 1948 (Orwell transposed the last two numbers to get the year of his novel); it is often said that it was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to manual. Animal Farm is written as a children's story, but the message is everything but a child's tale, it was written as a warning to show what socialist societies inevitably succumb to and how they degenerate to that point.
Similarly, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They are both written on a 10-11th grade level, and not hard to read. They are also dystopian future novels in which the authors were trying to extrapolate which way the political and social climates were trending. Aldous Huxley as a person is also worth a study, if even spending an hour or so online visiting Wiki links. He was a major player in the eugenics movement in the earlier part of the 20th century.