YA dystopias teach children to submit to the free market, not fight authority
theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/01/ya-dystopia...
theguardian.comPosted Sep 3, 2014, 12:59 AM UTC
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theguardian.comRemember: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
Stop forcing your freedom on me bro!
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What in the fucking fuck? Harry Potter is right-wing propaganda?
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Didn't you read the chapter in book 6 where Harry votes Democrat and then his penis falls off?
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I dunno. The chapter long speech Dumbledore gave at a Tea Party rally was farily offputting. :-P
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Who is Albus Dumbledore?
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He is obviously the leader of an underground militia called 'Dumbledore's Army'. He also incites rebellion among the students by telling them to follow their own convictions.
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Obamacarus Recconectum!
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Harry Potter cult that had been filling children's heads with right-wing dreams of public schools and supernatural powers
(UK "public school" = US "private school")
People being unique or making decisions for themselves (the basic element of the market) are right-wing ideas. Hippies were right-wingers too.
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Thanks, I didn't get the "public school" translation part. I still think it is royally fucked up, but at least now I know which brand of crazy the author subscribes to.
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(UK "public school" = US "private school")
....is there a public public school then in UK? Confused.
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So "public" in the UK school sense denotes operation by the public as opposed to the state. State operated schools are called state schools. That was my folk etymology and it may be a little wrong.
Wiki:
The term public school refers to a group of older, more expensive and exclusive fee-paying private independent schools in the United Kingdom, particularly in England, which cater primarily for children aged between 13 and 18. Traditionally, these were boys' boarding schools, although most now allow day pupils and many have turned either partially or fully co-educational. They emerged from charity schools established to educate poor scholars, the term "public" being used to indicate that access to them was not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation, or home location, and that they were subject to public management or control, in contrast to private schools which were run for the personal profit of the proprietors.
But state operated schools are indeed called state schools. And I'm pretty sure the majority of US private schools are super expensive and primarily profit-motivated, whereas that's not always the case elsewhere.
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I'm well-meaning, therefore I'm immune to criticism.
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Oh yeah because the states depicted in those works are totally awesome and everyone should just mindlessly submit to them because there's clearly no problems with them they're just awesome right guys? I mean it's a state, how can it be bad???
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why does the author keep referring to anything that fights authority or believes in free market as a right wing agenda?
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Shit writing, shit arguments, shit conclusion. Fits in perfectly with the rest of the shit statist say.
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I've seen a lot of crap from the Guardian which follows this kind of idiotic straw-man reductionism, but the really charming thing about this particular moronic diatribe is in the title "teach children to submit to the free market" - as though the free market was some kind of self-aware governing body. I would like people to realize that they are better off in most cases being ungoverned, but being ungoverned is not a form of submission, it's the EXACT F#(!@NG OPPOSITE of submission. It is personal responsibility and personal freedom. SUBMIT TO INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY!!
...ugh...
idiots.
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Well, she sold me on reading those books.
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How does one "submit" to an economy free from coercion?
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Hold up. How exactly does that make them different from previous dystopias?
Yeah it definitely wasn't a state in 1984 or A Brave New World... totally an evil corporation.
or in We
Or Equilibrium. Or Children of Men. Or V for Vendetta or...
You know what? The fiction being written reflects society's ills, and overcontrolling states is an eternal problem.
Anthem. Someone say Anthem!!!