Orwell would laugh
It's interesting the things you start to assume about people when you try to totally devote yourself to something outside the norm and make it your life. A couple days ago I wrote an English essay drawing heavily from George Orwell's 1984 without really specifying all the things that I took from it. The only real problems my group had with it was that they didn't know most of the references, and in fact one had never heard of 1984. I had thought that everyone alive knew about 1984. But then again, three years ago I myself had never heard about it.
It seems I don't have a proper guage of my knowledge. Now that I reflect on it the only environment I view the extent of my knowledge and ability in is a specified acedemic field, and one where I regularly see those who are most involved. Considering that less than three years ago I was a completely different person, I wonder just what I have done to myself as far as identity is. Have I really managed to change myself that much? I wish I had some way to tell.
But perhaps most importantly, there are people that have not heard of 1984. I thought it had become a figure of speech by now, didn't it?
It seems I don't have a proper guage of my knowledge. Now that I reflect on it the only environment I view the extent of my knowledge and ability in is a specified acedemic field, and one where I regularly see those who are most involved. Considering that less than three years ago I was a completely different person, I wonder just what I have done to myself as far as identity is. Have I really managed to change myself that much? I wish I had some way to tell.
But perhaps most importantly, there are people that have not heard of 1984. I thought it had become a figure of speech by now, didn't it?
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