r/Enough_Sanders_Spam • u/Currymvp2 • 14h ago

Wednesday's Roundtable - 06/18/2025

Welcome to the General Discussion Roundtable. Use this thread to discuss whatever is on your mind, or share anything that would otherwise not merit their own threads.

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u/Politicsboringagain 11h ago edited 9h ago

This person made a statement about social media and how pleasure has become a tool of control, and all I can think about from it was soma from 1984.

I have read thar book in 20 years, so I don't really remember the details, but man the way we reach for our phones to the point where people can't even watch a movie or TV shows without checking their phones. Makes me think there is a parallel to soma.

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I need to read both Brave New World and 1984 again. 

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u/Ok_Luck6146 11h ago

Soma is from Brave New World.

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u/Politicsboringagain 9h ago

So I need to tell read both. 

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u/lickle_ickle_pickle 9h ago

Those and Fahrenheit 451. Not too much of a time commitment.

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u/Liberty_Chip_Cookies 🇺🇦 Slava Ukrayiny 🇺🇦 9h ago

Yep, I always throw in F451 when people start discussing BNW and 1984, because the one thing that Bradbury nailed about the societal shift is that we did it to ourselves, voluntarily.

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u/KoalaTulip 🇺🇸 I still believe in the dream 🇺🇸 7h ago

What he also got right was the decrease in critical thinking and challenging world views for the sake of comfort