A frightening vision of the future? Or a dream from which Atrios awakens—simultaneously aroused and a bit ashamed—to find his stumpy Duncan jr. still semi-tumescent, his sheets puddled and tacky from a longing that, alas, millions of slackjawed Rethuglican voters refuse to let come to pass…
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Liberals as communists. What insightful commentary, as original as a comedian making jokes that start “White people do blank, while black people do blank.”
Sure, Vino, I guess you just skipped on by the casting. Need it distilled down to your level, huh?
Shorter Vino: “Didn’t read it; drunk.”
Ever read that Orwell fellah? Something about Big Brother? Try subbing Orwellian for Communist. Perhaps Jeff can recommend a good local school for you to go and pick up a literature class.
I would have gone with “Why did the chicken cross the road” but that’s just me.
Besides liberal could never be accused of promoting communism. What a farce, right?
Great fiction. The “You seem to have missed three Voluntary Mass Demonstrations Against Oppression in the past month” line had me rolling.
And on a side note, thank you for introducing “tumescent” into my vocabulary.
Oh, I read it. Liberal bloggers as Ministers of Etc. in some dystopian future. Just not very amusing, nor original, as satire outght be.
Now, this…
Please, please, please never talk about Atrios like that again.
I have to go scrub my brain with bleach and a wire brush now.
t/w: serious. Seriously.
That lefty? Sorry, I don’t like liberals.
Whiner man, why the heck would anyone voluntary go to Tbogg’s site. Jeez event he name remonds me of that character teabag on Prison Break. Just what we need, yeah sure…
TW: start as in don’t get me start-ed
That bit of satire seems to have touched some nerves. The truth must sting a bit.
TV (Harry)
We rethugs who troll Eschaton refer to Atrios as Mr. Funcan Hack.
Dystopian? It sounded absolutely wonderful. Almost Stalinist.
And you’d have Jeff, et al exactly where you want them: as an enemies of the state.
I don’t understand. What is your problem with this?
As much as I-heart-Chris-Hitchens…I think we need a moritorium on Orwell for the Blogosphere. Orwell has become “home base” for the electronic game of tag we as commenters and bloggers play day-to-day. Come across a story about the police or a court making a questionable decision (or simply one you don’t like)? Orwell! Editorial feature an odd choice of word? Orwell! Taking an otherwise reasonable reading of events and turning it on its ear to hint at government’s creep into your life? Orwell!
Remember when Sullivan had a Cheney quote at the top of his blog? Now it’s Orwell.
If you’re worried about generating some unattricative spittle shouting “Facist” at your opponent, mention something about how Orwellian they sound (or their position sounds).
Just me .02…which is likely worth .01 what with inflation and all.
But aside from that, while giggle worthy, I’m going to have to agree with IVV (and if there were a shower at my workplace…I’d be in there right now crying), it’s kind of obvious. I’m trying to imagine how one might go about distinguishing a “progressive” distopia from a classic communist distopia, but I think the differences would exist. It might also go a little way in terms of actually explaining why people might *shock and horror* disagree with them.
example:
while in classic distopia books are burned or banned, in a progressive distopia books (among other items) are castrated of any meaning beyond personal enjoyment. While the story kind of hits that idea, I think it wouldn’t be such a *wink wink free-but-not-free* kind of thing. Rather, it would be more of an empty headed smile, as we all get to come up with the most comfortable meanings for the classics.
I’m picturing a group of college students sitting on the campus quad, talking about the latest book they had to read for their “historical classics” course: the Bible. As they go around, the students talk about how certain sections related to their personal experiences (one girl remembers this one time she lost her keys in a bar after getting smashed on Miller High-Life and someone caught up from behind her and returned them…kind of like how Jesus helped those prostitutes), to vague personal philosophies about doing good, to odd tangents about how one might rewrite the Bible from the perspective of one of the disenfranchsied characters…Until the group comes to someone who starts talking about God. This kid, I imagine, starts talking about the idea of someone or something holding the individual to a higher standard and about good and evil. He talks about where the book has challenged him and how different a person he would have to be to live such a life. As he finishes up a torrid burst of thoughs…he looks around to blank stares and pulling up blades of grass- tossing them into the wind.
tw: nations- as in , If you are over the age of 50 and reading The Wealth of Nations, you should probably be put on a sex offenders watch list.
Obligatory ignore acthole comment.
I hope this does not all take place in JFK city. I’d like to see some of the narrative branch out to Daley City (Chicago) or Kennedyville (Boston), where the unarmed underground pockets of resistance, led by the EVIL Goldstein reside.
Entertaining.
Don’t forget the chickenhawk / Keyboard Kommandoes meme.From Homage to Catalonia:
Orwell!
Doesn’t apply.
the Twin Cities of Mondaleapolis & St. Hubert. Just a brief mention, like how the hard-working assistant deputy ministers in Daley City, on their way up to one of their confiscated lake homes, always stop over to see The Running of the Rethuglicans.
Liberals as communists.ÂÂ
You can call liberals Socialists – they’re ok with that. But, they’ve finally picked up the meme on Communism.
You know, I’ve been thinking – if we could only implement Communism as intended by Marx …
Although our writings may be “Hamshered†in 2034, we can still gather in small communities on the outskirts of cities to exchange facts and capitalistic ideas.
There will be a trend back to pen and paper, in order to delay the inevitable deletions of Comrade Jane.
Read this again actus. Read it over and over until you finally understand what it says and then get back to us, if any of us are still around by then.
GANNNNNNNOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!!!!
tw: less, as in less is more (War is Peace/Ignorance is Truth/Freedeom is Slavery)
Check out the whole link. Read about hte accusation of being a counter-revolutionary, of being a splitter, a franco fifth columnist (its where that comes from). And then tell me what you understand its about. Here. On this blog.
But there sure is in Orwell enough for all sorts of understanding.
B Moe,
actus as a parody of actus? Did anybody check IP addresses to see if he is him?
I think it applies terribly well – think Sheehan et al…
the law of unintended consequences indeed.
DAMN YOU NEOCONS!!!!1!!11!!oneone!!eleven
Exactly. She has nothing in this fight. Anymore.
Ignore the acthole. Eventually he’ll stop wanking and go bother someone else.
Exactly! If we do ignore it – it will eventually tire and go away.
No I won’t.
If you don’t stop picking at it, it’ll become infected.
I like anything with Jeff in it.
Even lime jello. And the story was even better than lime jello with Jeff in it. So, yeah, I liked it.
In a nutshell? It is a soldier on the lines bitching about negative press coverage and people playing politics instead of doing the right thing.
(I’m going with the spoiled OCD mallrat teen, forever stilted by daddy, the evil Americanized capitalist):
actus shoves aside ramen wrappers, chugs a final half-inch of warm Diet Coke, regards the screen, spidery white fingers nearly twitching while frantic neurons fire in stew of contained rage. Even the clattering empty aluminum doesn’t startle the malnourished cat anymore. The recycled air stinks faintly.
Keep it short, she thinks. Keep it just outside of coherence. Leave room for misinterpretation. Three word sentences. Keep them talking. The law student ploy works too; go with that. Attention. Attention.
Cold rain falls, streaking the plate glass forty feet above the street. actus hasn’t gotten from her chair in 5 hours; hasn’t left the room in 19. Staring eyes bulge, dry and dimensionless; transfixed by thoughts caught forever in habitual, worn circles.
An appliance hums someplace in the next room as she represses a vague loathing for everything that lives:
and:
As her hands levitate six inches from the keys, actus falls back, eyes dart to the ceiling. Attention!
Is it the negative coverage they complain about? or the patridiotic tone?
Is this a lame attempt at the Socratic method? Or just abject stupidity?
it will be finals time soon. thank god!
You want to stay on top of the tumescence. It’s really the coming thing.