{"id":48367,"date":"2019-05-15T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48367"},"modified":"2019-05-14T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T01:39:30","slug":"1984-dystopias-and-apocalypses-extra-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/1984-dystopias-and-apocalypses-extra-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>1984<\/em> &#8211; Dystopias and Apocalypses &#8211; Extra Sci Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrKwpDoDkc4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 14 May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What makes <em>1984<\/em> still relevant to modern readers is that it serves as a warning against fascism in all its possible forms. George Orwell&#8217;s service fighting in the Spanish Civil War led him to see that the heart of totalitarianism is about xenophobia and nationalism no matter which kind of government it came from.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Orwell presents us in <em>1984<\/em> is that people subtle enough and brutal enough can take the undirected dissatisfaction and anger of a society and point it at whatever they will, using us to damn ourselves.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 14 May 2019 What makes 1984 still relevant to modern readers is that it serves as a warning against fascism in all its possible forms. George Orwell&#8217;s service fighting in the Spanish Civil War led him to see that the heart of totalitarianism is about xenophobia and nationalism no matter which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,84,28],"tags":[650,780,457,354,85,335],"class_list":["post-48367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-government","category-media","tag-civilwar","tag-communism","tag-fascism","tag-georgeorwell","tag-sf","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cA7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48368,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48367\/revisions\/48368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}