Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

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  straightnationultra
  June 19th, 2026
  

  

  If only people would understand there can be no liberty without privacy

  Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
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  Silesian
  June 20th, 2026
  

  @straightnationultra the thing is that, my friend, most people don’t really care for privacy or freedom. nowadays, it’s expected of them to virtue signal about both but do they make any actual use of either? most people like it best when freedom is limited to what the majority does because freedom comes with choices, responsibility, and quite often a price of irreversible wrong choices you must blame yourself for. without freedom, there’s always someone else to blame while you just do what you are told and wait for things to get better.

  and privacy? do you have anything to hide?! i’m joking, ofc.
  privacy’s a mostly modern concept. throughout almost all history of mankind, there was little to no privacy: small tribal/familial groups, very little space, constant interactions, everyone familiar with everyone else. first, societies stratified but they were still lacking privacy within their strata. then, urbanization came and people started ignoring each other due to sheer numbers, still remaining in private tight-knit social groups, often randomly decided by location, lacking privacy. the modern need for privacy stems from alienation brought by the industrial era. people started to enjoy their peaceful autarky. a new man created new needs for himself, needs, which to his forefathers would be unnatural.

  Times are changing and it’s time to revisit this classic, keeping in mind that the author had his own vision of humanity, its right order and a certain condition he viewed as the right one. was his vision the true condition of mankind? i would disagree, even if i conceded that something like “the nature of man” spanning everyone actually exists. All the same, it’s an important voice in a debate, even though it’s merely an opinion, whose somewhat flimsy nature can be easily proven by the fact that people holding starkly different views use it as a proof of their own concepts.

  Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
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  iangel
  June 20th, 2026
  

  Thank you so much

  Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

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