Bungkarnoenjoyer to Shit Reactionaries Say · edit-21 year agoWhy does the title itself have that 'Cartoonish Villain' feel and look like straight out of an Onion Article ?imagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1imageWhy does the title itself have that 'Cartoonish Villain' feel and look like straight out of an Onion Article ?Bungkarnoenjoyer to Shit Reactionaries Say · edit-21 year agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDamarcusArtlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI meant specifically his review of 1984, not BNW, which I agree with your assessment of there, it’s more that his review of 1984 is cathartic as even other liberals of the time pointed out the bullshit Orwell slopped onto the page.
minus-squareDamarcusArtlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoHuh, I must’ve gotten his mixed up with the Isaac Asimov one. I thought Huxley had a pretty negative opinion of the book as well, but apparently not.
minus-squarePolandIsAStateOfMindlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoYeah, Asimov correctly dunked on him pretty hard (though not hard enough), both as futurist and as writer.
I meant specifically his review of 1984, not BNW, which I agree with your assessment of there, it’s more that his review of 1984 is cathartic as even other liberals of the time pointed out the bullshit Orwell slopped onto the page.
This one?
Huh, I must’ve gotten his mixed up with the Isaac Asimov one. I thought Huxley had a pretty negative opinion of the book as well, but apparently not.
Yeah, Asimov correctly dunked on him pretty hard (though not hard enough), both as futurist and as writer.