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Plato's Republic with iPhones

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5 years ago

To what extent is 1984[1] just the Republic with modern SIGINT?

Minitru http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D3%3Asection%3D389b et seq

Miniplen http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D4%3Asection%3D420e et seq

Minitru http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D10%3Asection%3D607a

Minipax http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D2%3Asection%3D373d et seq

Guardians love the State / Party Members love Big Brother: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D3%3Asection%3D412e

[1] at least as explicated in Goldstein. I myself have not read the fast-forward. Do we ever get any depiction of Inner Party sex and family life in it? Or is it possible they reproduce as Plato's Guardians do, as the argument for strict meritocracy in Goldstein suggests?

Miniluv http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D5%3Asection%3D451d