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Got this cheap copy a month ago and it has kicked off an Orwell obsession. there is something so phantasmic reading this in London 70 ish years later he was writing these essays.
Have used this in every essay I can since reading like…. he was so true idk…
Mar 18, 2025
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strangely, 1984 by george orwell saved my life in middle school by introducing me to the concept of doublethink… but also it is just a great dystopian book if you’re into that
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i read this recently lol it is a little unnerving given where the world is at rn but worth a read!
Mar 16, 2025
Theodor Adorno’s aphorisms written around wwii are terrifyingly insightful for the current moment. It’s also the sort of book where you (I) have to look up words and reread sentences and identify subject-verb placement to understand his syntax (which I think for the most part is at clear as it can be to best convey his complex ideas) and feels like a very anti-brainrot read, like I can feel the peaks and valleys of my brain returning. He’s also gotta be a top 10 hater throughout history and authors his frustrations delightfully. I feel more equipped to insult searingly after reading.
May 19, 2025
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lowk live for the click clack sound. love being in a different place with cool hair.
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like many of the other responses to this post, I think that having physical copies of media ensures that there is some enduring access. It’s archival.
I would also add that having the physical copies enhances engagement with the media. This is of course a privilege bc physical media is usually more expensive than digital, but I do think that consuming Digital media is often more passive. Idk. I love my phone too (and Spotify and the internet archive and Gutenberg project). But after I started collecting CDs and physical books I became very interested in getting as much as possible out of them. listening to the same album in its entirety for weeks at a time. rereading a book (Seriously, I would rarely reread a book before).
Also lending the copies to friends is the best thing in the world. Like being able to share and then discus- or even just the sharing. Whether or not you get it back it just becomes a gift. Which is nice.
Anyways to blabber on this last point: I don’t think that you always have to personally own and keep forever all of the physical media you accrue. just going to a library does a lot of the same good (supporting local archiving + engaging with stuff my tangibly + media becoming communal). learning that many libraries still have VHS, CDs, and DVDs available to check out changed my life. ya.
Mar 9, 2025