Literary Inquiry [ Video ]

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[ So, Luceti, you have Kirk showing up today on our totally hi-grade, super deluxe communication system (haha, yeah right). Anyways, he's there, and he currently has a copy of George Orwell's "1984" displayed in hand. ]

So... I have an honest to god sort of question for everyone. 

How many of you ever thought or believed the stuff in books like this would come true in the future? Or better yet, does anyone actually live in a world like these books describe?

Because, really, the twenty-first century view of the future is... interesting. 

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[Maybe it's better now. She still thinks that every now and then. Wonders if Paylor's government will stand the test of time, will remain that republic Plutarch talked about. Or would they go back to Snow's dictatorship? The controlling Capitol and the crushed Districts?

She doesn't know. And for now, still, whenever she thinks of home, she thinks of the home that she grew up in.]

Like the Hunger Games?

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Yeah... like those. Some things, way back in the history of my world, they resemble that, like in the Aztec and Mayan empires. But nothing in recent history. It's noticeable, and not in a good way.

_{[ Which makes it all the sadder that it's a spectacle in her world. That people ENJOY watching children died. It makes him sick, and he still swears if he finds her world and it's like that he'll do something about it. Because it's not right. It'll never be right. ]}

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[She shakes her head. The empires are meaningless to her. Any history prior to the formation of Panem was kept from the Districts. Anything aside from the basics. How those people in the centuries before had used and used, wasted and wasted until little resources were left. Wars broke out over what remained. And from those ashes, Panem arose in North America.

She didn't even know if anything even still existed in those other places on Earth.]

The Romans did. [Because Plutarch had somehow known that. Had somehow known the history kept from the rest of the country.] At least, Plutarch said that. Panem et ...something. Bread and circuses. He said that's where we got our name.