Episode 5: George Orwell Stupid Anthropology podcast

2y ago 2:33:17

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The gang talks about 1984 author George Orwell, wonder why our culture is so susceptible to short stories, and discuss why James Bond should be thrown onto the trash pile of history.

Digressions include:

Dune is not open source
One Clever Trick to Avoiding the Mile Run
Fireside Chats about USB
Fireside Chats about Bach Cantatas

Music by Daniel Griggs.

Reading List

John Molyneux Animal Farm revisited: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/molyneux/1989/xx/orwell.html -
Gordon Beadle George Orwell and the American Conservatives: https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1191&context=suscholar
Louis Menand - "Honest, Decent, Wrong:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/honest-decent-wrong
Ron Charles - "Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian" https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/orwell-1984-conservatives/2021/01/11/e80ce30e-5446-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
https://libcom.org/article/orwell-quotes-right-wingers-never-mention
Rachel Klein Please Stop Comparing Things to “1984:" https://electricliterature.com/please-stop-comparing-things-to-1984/

Non reading list

https://www.foxnews.com/media/charlie-kirk-orwells-1984-is-the-instruction-manual-for-the-left-theyre-criminalizing-speech

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