I met a man in Greece recently and we discussed 1984 at length. He’s one of only a handful of people familiar with the book I’ve met since I began asking people during Covid if they know Orwell. It seems the under 30 crowd are ignorant and fearless about the warning signs so obvious in 1984. Thanks for the reference to Agamben’s book it sounds very interesting.
I met a man in Greece recently and we discussed 1984 at length. He’s one of only a handful of people familiar with the book I’ve met since I began asking people during Covid if they know Orwell. It seems the under 30 crowd are ignorant and fearless about the warning signs so obvious in 1984. Thanks for the reference to Agamben’s book it sounds very interesting.
I notice the same thing so I would think that most public schools and schools with leftist leaders are not using 1984 and Animal Farm as required reading. I read both in high school in the mid 1960s. We also read None Dare Call It Treason in our Catholic high school in Brooklyn, NY.
I met a man in Greece recently and we discussed 1984 at length. He’s one of only a handful of people familiar with the book I’ve met since I began asking people during Covid if they know Orwell. It seems the under 30 crowd are ignorant and fearless about the warning signs so obvious in 1984. Thanks for the reference to Agamben’s book it sounds very interesting.
I notice the same thing so I would think that most public schools and schools with leftist leaders are not using 1984 and Animal Farm as required reading. I read both in high school in the mid 1960s. We also read None Dare Call It Treason in our Catholic high school in Brooklyn, NY.
I am wondering what prompted me to read Ayn Rand in my hippie youth. Must have been in the water.
Was it the cover of the book?