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Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell's birthday... - vor_lord - 06-29-2013
And they do it by putting party hats on surveillance cameras all over Utrecht. Check out photos here.
I don't usually participate in the political threads here on the Lounge (though I do sometimes read them), but I thought this was worth mentioning in this audience. My lasting impressions of the evils of a surveillance state come from Vernor Vinge rather than Orwell, but I think this is a nice touch.
RE: Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell's birthday... - eppie - 06-29-2013
O crap, i was in utrecht that day and i didn't notice. Nice idea though.
RE: Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell's birthday... - kandrathe - 06-29-2013
(06-29-2013, 05:58 AM)eppie Wrote: O crap, i was in utrecht that day and i didn't notice. Nice idea though.I hear that the De Uithof campus has 130% female population...
RE: Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell's birthday... - FireIceTalon - 06-29-2013
Interesting. Although I think the article understates things about reality becoming closer to the society that Orwell described - we are well past that point, and have been for a while now.
RE: Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell's birthday... - shoju - 06-29-2013
As a major fan of Dystopian novels, I don't see Orwell's 1984 as our reality either now, or in the near future. I see more correlation between Jennifer Government from Maxx Barry, at least in the US. Could it lead to a Orwellian society? Possibly, but I really see it as less overtly controlling than Orwell, and more along the lines of Barry, or if you prefer the classics, some of the sociological points found in Huxley's Brave New World.
RE: Dutch artists celebrate George Orwell's birthday... - eppie - 06-30-2013
(06-29-2013, 06:08 PM)kandrathe Wrote:(06-29-2013, 05:58 AM)eppie Wrote: O crap, i was in utrecht that day and i didn't notice. Nice idea though.I hear that the De Uithof campus has 130% female population...
What?? Of every 100 people 130 are women???
Well yeah, I studied there but I was in the Chemistry department.....so the statistics there were slightly different.