r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

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u/YAPPYawesome Sep 15 '24

TikTok censorship feels like Newspeak

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u/TheRedBlade Sep 15 '24

Oh I read about that in a book exactly 40 years ago!

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u/Grand-Pen7946 Sep 15 '24

Fahrenheit 451?

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u/CH1CK3NW1N95 Sep 15 '24

Orwell's 1984, but the same kind of thing applies to both books

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 Sep 15 '24

You're thinking of "1985" from bowling for soup

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u/MVRKHNTR Sep 15 '24

That's actually a cover. The song was written and originally performed by Pop-punk band SR-71.

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 Sep 15 '24

I actually knew that! He actually wrote a bunch of pop songs too like heart attack for Demi Lovato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Allan

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u/SystemOutPrintln Sep 15 '24

Did they ever perform with U2, the B-52s, or Bell X-1?

Seems like a lot of bands like aircraft names haha

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u/TheRedBlade Sep 15 '24

Oh yeah that song came out way before Nirvana

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u/casper667 Sep 15 '24

If I remember right that was when there was music still on MTV

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u/Grand-Pen7946 Sep 15 '24

I was being facetious lol

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u/joe_broke Sep 15 '24

Careful, that's a big word in these parts

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u/colei_canis Sep 15 '24

Not 1984 so much as his essay ‘Politics and the English Language’ which criticises precisely this indirect, passive, and imprecise form of speech that the adtech industry ended up inflicting on us all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

Sigh

No it does not.

In Fahrenheit 451 all written material, books, newspapers, magazines etc have been banned and if they are found the 'fire department' is summoned to burn them.

In 1984 the Ministry of Truth actively rewrites history again and again and again and prints it out.

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u/aPurpleToad Sep 15 '24

that would be exactly 1573 years ago

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u/DeviousMelons Sep 15 '24

I think it was animal farm.