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What is all the litterally 1984 referance. I don't wanna look it up because it may be bad.

Edit : I say that because every time i looked up a number from internet i wanted to bleach my eyes for reference 34 and 69

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like others have mentioned, it’s a book. I recommend reading it. Also another dystopian novel, “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Lessons to be learned from both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah it's a running joke (which might be too real to be funny) that the world superpower countries are split on if their game plan is to follow 1984 or Brave New World