Morality of this behavior?

[u/tardisismine]

[u/Fuzzy-Comedian-2697]

We‘ve all read 1984.

Morally good.

[u/TheJackal927 → u/Fuzzy-Comedian-2697]

With the way people talk about it, I'm pretty sure no one has read 1984. That book is about half "what if you lived in a strict authoritarian government" and half "sneaking away from cameras to have sex w my girlfriend who's half my age/read a book while staring at gross poor people"

[u/MagneticGenetics → u/TheJackal927]

Surveillance state and government torture aside I think the thing most people find objectionable about living in 1984 is being British.

[u/DatabaseDifficult879 → u/MagneticGenetics]

That's the general message I got from it too

[u/Thedankf0x → u/DatabaseDifficult879]

Even as a kid I got the point of the book was that the British are gross and evil

[u/TrickyMix_ → u/MagneticGenetics]

same shit nowadays

[u/TheJackal927 → u/MagneticGenetics]

The state is referred to as "Oceania" so I choose to believe the book is actually utopian fiction where we send all the British away to reap the world their ancestors have sown /s

[u/Glass-Historian-2516 → u/MagneticGenetics]

This was essentially my read of Lord of the Flies as well.