Media literacy is dead.

If a student asks me why this isn't more redeemable, why this isn't more pleasant, the obvious answer is that 1984 is both a reflection of the political trajectory that the Western world was on at the time and a warning against a possible future that will eventually be born because of that trajectory.

And then there's me saying all the same stuff about something like Alchemist, but Alchemized romanticizes those abuses, whereas Half his age is clearly being critical and cynical towards those same abuses.

In my recent video review of this book, I called it a feminist masterpiece.

It is a claustrophobic soap opera in which everyone is a villain in one way or another. It's a bunch of horrible people being horrible. And that's okay. There is fun in that.