If you can read this, you're not living in a dystopia! You know how teenagers end up so negative, depressed, and pessimistic? Maybe it's because we shove gloom and doom down their throats as part of their required reading. In the United States, George Orwell's mid-20th-century dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is heavily picked by teachers as required reading for students, and the blues don't end there. Here is a list of required reading titles for American high schools, let's see how negative these works are…
The Catcher in the Rye - Young boy rants about "phony" society, rages at the world.
Lord of the Flies - Group of stranded boys descends into homicidal savagery.
Animal Farm - Political revolution on a farm turns into dystopia for the animals.
Fahrenheit 451 - Dystopian society burns books because they're for smart people.
1984 - World has taken over by totalitarian regime just for the evil LULZ.
Brave New World - See the previous novel, filtered through Elon…
Good morning class. Today we're going to talk about China, and why you never, never should. For the people of Hong Kong, the story of their strife with China began in March of 2019, when the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government triggered widespread panic overconcerns that China could subject Hong Kong to its draconian laws and crippling human rights record. Some more. Hong Kong and China… It's complicated! The British gave Hong Kong, a formerly British-controlled territory as part of the aftermath of (throws a dart at history) the Opium Wars, back to the Chinese government in 1997, which everyone's regretted ever since. I'll put aside my lack of confidence in Vox's editorial standards to let them explain this mess: But for most of the Western world, the story of Hong Kong began in October of 2019, when an e-sports contestant going by the handle of "Blitzchung" took the opportunity of winning a game of Hearthstone to make a political statement in…
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