We prefer Zamyatin’s We to 1984, which Orwell published three years after reviewing We. We do, however, absolutely love this post from one of our favorite blogs, Utopia or Dystopia: Where Past Meets Future about 1984 and the current political climate in the US of A. From the author, Rick Searle:
“[T]rying to use 1984 as a map through the Trump presidency might pose just as many distortions as insights . . . because our efforts and attention might be drawn into an ineffectual resistance against an enemy unlikely to arrive, while the real villain slips in unnoticed in his place. What’s required, then, is a close reading of 1984 to see where it fits and diverges from what’s happened so far . . . .”
Searle’s close reading is something we should think about carefully. Please click on the link to his blog above and read his thoughts.
Jared from “Silicon Valley” is a pretty nice guy. He is the most compassionate voice on the show. Sometimes to get a laugh the show will also have him say something incredibly dark and tragic about his past. His childhood, thru several grim anecdotes, was a bleak affair referencing intense loneliness and poverty.
It was completely crushing to see Jared’s final action of the season, but it also felt so real. Jared knows poverty better than anyone else on the team and his action shows us he is willing to go further than anyone else on the team to never be poor again. For the rest of the team success is movable swimming pools and celebrity, for Jared it is finally killing the ever present specter of poverty he has known all his life.