everyone's all like "omg its just like in 1984" but i say NOOO ITS SO MUCH WORSE ITS JUST LIKE IN BRAVE NEW WORLD i could see the world going in a 1984 direction if the christian nationalists get into power but this is corporation hell. this is brave new world. this is a hell upon hells. - if you think about it, what is the internet but a means to keep the populous complacent and thus useless? - so brave new world is basically a depressionfest. there is no hope for this world, that's the point. unlike how 1984 ends with some hope, brave new world doesn't. brave new world is static and things will never change. it's a cynical bastard book made to comfort the disturbed but honestly as a hopeful person myself this is the kinda shit that keeps me up at night lol it's a notoriously hard read so here, i'll read it to you <3 idfk whip your dick out if it helps you pay attention just pretty please listen to the book. read along if you have it. thanks for listening! ps. sorry if its a lil dogshit quality or i fumble my words i'm doing this all in one go alright, cut me some slack xD obligatory im a girl so being bad at something is just having a woman moment amirite teehee ---- obligatory personal opinions yapfest down below i like this book because it answers a philosophical question of mine that's hard to put into words but i'll try. "would you rather be at the top of the world with a million gajillion dollars and all the luxuries you could ever want (curated as they may be due to your lack of brain) but no real freedom of thought (because your sense of self is dead) OR live in an actual mudhut as a debt slave working the mines like youre one of elon musks little african slave boys but you have free reign over the only thing you really have control over, your own mind and thus your actions" so more accurately >"is stability worth sacrificing your comfort and sense of self for?" pretty horrific stuff for a schizophrenic unemployed neet living at exactly subsistence level. i ate a pack of crab classic today because i didn't have jack shit else in my fridge. what a wretched fucking meal man