You know, this symbol I believe is from the movie, and I don’t know what it’s supposed to signify exactly… but it’s a little bit telling that it’s a white hand shaking a black hand. Is the problem that Big Brother supports miscegenation and interracial unity?
It’s probably written off as supposing to be a glove or some other shit. But it still rubs me wrong.
It is supposed to be a communist symbol unironically, with the black hand supposed to represent an industrial glove, with the lines being shiny latex, and the white hand is supposed to represent farmers and the agrarians.
This makes sense seeing how the whole movie and book is just "GoMMuniZm BaD!!!
also makes me think we should reinterpret and reclaim 1984 as a story not about the horrors of totalitarianism, but instead as the unreliably narrated story of a sex-obsessed fascist groomer getting girlbossed by a based undercover feminist comrade
When i first read 1984 i interpreted it as pretty clumsy, but very anticapitalist message, and i wasn’t even tankie back then, just succdem - that’s maybe because i was also read in various sci-fi dystopias which were mostly capitalist dystopias.
When i learned Orwell was anticommunist i was like “For fucks sake, how bad author he was that he achieved effect opposite to intended?”
It’s just weird bcuz there’s no androids or robots in the story are there? I haven’t seen the movie either tho so maybe they changed some stuff. If it’s gloves, I still don’t get it. Are gloves authoritarian?
You know, this symbol I believe is from the movie, and I don’t know what it’s supposed to signify exactly… but it’s a little bit telling that it’s a white hand shaking a black hand. Is the problem that Big Brother supports miscegenation and interracial unity?
It’s probably written off as supposing to be a glove or some other shit. But it still rubs me wrong.
It is supposed to be a communist symbol unironically, with the black hand supposed to represent an industrial glove, with the lines being shiny latex, and the white hand is supposed to represent farmers and the agrarians.
This makes sense seeing how the whole movie and book is just "GoMMuniZm BaD!!!
George Orwell when workers exist:
also makes me think we should reinterpret and reclaim 1984 as a story not about the horrors of totalitarianism, but instead as the unreliably narrated story of a sex-obsessed fascist groomer getting girlbossed by a based undercover feminist comrade
(jk… unless?)
When i first read 1984 i interpreted it as pretty clumsy, but very anticapitalist message, and i wasn’t even tankie back then, just succdem - that’s maybe because i was also read in various sci-fi dystopias which were mostly capitalist dystopias.
When i learned Orwell was anticommunist i was like “For fucks sake, how bad author he was that he achieved effect opposite to intended?”
At this rate I’m starting to love Ingsoc I can’t lie…
I always thought the arm was to represent a robot or smth
It’s just weird bcuz there’s no androids or robots in the story are there? I haven’t seen the movie either tho so maybe they changed some stuff. If it’s gloves, I still don’t get it. Are gloves authoritarian?