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Oat milk is just like 1984

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more like WOKE milk 😤

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14 points

oataliarianism :kelly:

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Oat milk is actually just like Down and Out on Paris and London

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Oat milk is authoritarian red fash :sorry-sweaty:

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It’s not oppressive in the same sense as typical violence, and certainly not as uncomfortable, but :graeber: did document what knowing deep down that what you do is lecherous and useless does to your psyche. Prognosis not good.

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32 points

The coward who made this has included just one of the authors’ first names purely to avoid using the word “Dickian”.

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28 points

attempting to compare reality to fictional dystopia always falls short, even when you shore it up with three other fictional dystopias

the truth is stranger than fiction

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Yeah absolutely. Those stories are literally reflections of the time & place they were created, so by comparing the present day to them you’re starting this weird postmodern logic-loop that can’t offer any solutions or alternatives

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Out of all of them Brave New World really nails it, the only one of the four that feels like a proper commentary on the way I live in the here and now.

Kafka comes in at second, if only because it is cathartic to read his stuff

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Kafka gets really chilling when you realize all that bureaucratic oppression was done with nothing but a paper and pencil

No phones

No computers

No databases

No internet

No neural networks

No AI

Now they have all those things.

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10 points

But, can desk jockeys and bureaucrats stop me from talking loudly about crazy niche porn genres I have found, while waiting in the queue? NOPE

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7 points

hey they had typewriters and telephones

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kafka’s bureacracy was never malicious it’s an indifferent thing that chews up lives because it’s easier to do what the paperwork says to than correct it even when that’s wrong

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Try piracy, meet Orwell

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8 points

I used to pirate a lot, maybe I just did it when it was easier to get away with it

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For me it’s Fahrenheit 451 that’s closest to the mark.

For the last decade I’ve felt like the odd one out for having lots of books, but not having a car or a TV

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