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The book is quite timeless, but like 1984, it came out of the post-war paranoia of the 50s. Unlike 1984, it definitely takes the view that mass media is the chosen instrument of imperialism, making legacy media an enemy of “progress.”

Goodreads does a bunch! Can you put a musician or album or movie in goodreads and get book reccomendations? I like my site because it’s good at one thing and it’s fast. Also no login required!

Yes - and then I have to pull myself up and say "slow down!"

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Thank you for contextualizing it with 50’s American culture, I’m going to be thinking of this while I make my way through the book. The grass roots work of neo-nazis put this book in my hands, which is ironic considering I’m Jewish

Doesn't goodreads and similar sites already do this?

How is this different then the suggested books at the bottom of those sites?

I recommend reading the chapter in this book about Proust's work:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175973.Recovering_Your_Story

Using an audio book at the moment to get through it. Love the psychological delve he takes in the first chapter to give the reader a sense of dread over the unknown, the paranoia that your end is not only nigh, but surprisingly so.

I like subs that are specifically for certain authors that I enjoy. r/literature is ok but it's starting to feel more like r/books

Sounds good. Any versions/translations to be aware of?

Need a better source to prove “urged… bombing.”

Well, since he cites VL and many sources I find your comment… odd. Why don’t you try a more discernible response instead of a one-sided one so we can take you more seriously

Yes, I remember a podcast talking about a woman that lost her job and had trouble providing and what not. Got a credit card and bought all of this bulk stuff like toilet paper, household stuff, and a week of groceries. Well maxed it out and then didn’t have any access to the remaining weeks of groceries. Had tons of TP though.

The analysis was that she was trying to horde when she could rather than plan for consistent manageable spending. But that’s what high stress desperate people will do. They will focus on some random thing vs big picture. That’s how I’m books or other media I’m a little forgiving of decisions I wouldn’t make because I’m just sipping tea and relaxing. I’m not be chased or under pressure.

Yea you’re probably right, I definitely felt strange walking through my neighborhood back to my house after seeing the pamphlets. Now they’re shredded in the trash but it’s a definite reminder for me that these morons are everywhere

Surely someone who often posts to r/InformedTankie is not a Tankie

Exactly what I was thinking, these dingleberries have no historical foresight

Yeah, 10-year-olds, especially when girls are starting to hit puberty before the boys, I could see it being virtually the same story

Oh you should watch Yellowjackets, it’s about an all girls soccer team whose plane crashes in the wilds of Canada

This is seriously the most bizarre thread. I've never seen people so furious about something that affects literally no one.

1. They know books like Fahrenheit 451 appeal to the left.
2. Their entire modus operandi is: "own the libs"
3. They know a liberal finding real-life nazi flyers in such books will confuse, frustrate, or anger libs.
4. They "win." It's as simple as that - making the libs cry. If, for some crazy reason, it recruits another nazi, then they're doubly successful.

<sigh>

How is it pretentious?

The irony of the 1933 nazi book burnings must have been lost to them

A documentary team in the UK put a bunch of boys in a house for a weekend and filmed them. No adults. Just middle school boys and all strangers before the experiment. They repeated it with girls. Both are up on YouTube in full.

Middle schoolers have underdeveloped brains so its fairly predictable that both groups get up to some stupid shit but its the little differences that are interesting.

As for mixing boys and girls, I'm a cynic so if they were over the age of 14 I'd guess it wouldn't go very well for the girls, especially if it was a plane crash on an island and not a single weekend in a house with a clear escape time and cameras rolling. Under 14, its hard to say.

I believe Golding said that he didn't put girls in because he didn't want to add sexuality, which is in itself wrong I think because sexuality can be gay as well. Personally I believe that given the assumption that kids would do that, then they would do it in a mixed group as well