Your Dictatorship's Mandatory Reading List

[Bronzebow]

See, one way to keep in power would be to render your entire populace illiterate and unable to think for themselves (See: 1984, Southern USA, Cambodia.) But anyway. My list.

As I am neither illiterate nor unable to think for myself, I'd appreciate it if you'd rethink your "ignorant southerner" rhetoric. Nothing like jumping into a fun thread only to be called crap like that.

>.>

 

[whitelye]

Ironically, a lot of my recommendations would be dystopian/anti-establishmentarianism literature.

-The Giver
-Farenheit 451
-1984
-The Commedia
-Shakespeare's Entire Works
-Everything by Bill Bryson
-Everything by Eva Ibbotson
-The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
-The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein
-A Series of Unfortunate Events by lemony Snicket
-Antigone by Sophocles
-Some Clive Barker here, Stephen King there...

I won't say that Harry Potter isn't fun to read, but It's hardly worth the extra enforcements and executions.

Shakespeare's entire works would be quite the task for any one person. That on top of this list would have you cutting off heads left and right. And up and down too.

So...what? Where's the problem?

There is none. It's your dictatorship.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Read : Good Omens
Watch : Connections with James Burke
Listen : The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill on Sea.
Smell : Bacon on freshly baked Bread.
Play : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Feel : A purring cat.
See : The full moon on a hill overlooking the sea with a loved one.
Taste : Freshly squeezed orange juice.

I'm looking for a Dictatorial Utopia.

The only way to have a TRUE utopia... Eliminate most freedoms, and keep the population dumb. Of course this may lead to dissent, but that is what death squads are for...

 

[Amnestic]

By the time I become dictator we'll have information being fed through tubes directly to people's brains...

That said however, I'd have them forced to watch my National Information channel for at least 3 hours/day. It'd basically just be a propaganda machine about how freaking awesome my nation is compared to everyone else's.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Terry Pratchett, a thesaurus/dictionary (repeatedly), a few classic books (I've never read them but I will follow my own laws) and The Hobbit.

 

[jasoncyrus]

I would agree entirely with Pratchett...after that the rest must be screened and anything that ignites rebellion will be temporarily banned until the populace gets it through their thick heads that rebellion leads to people getting skinned alive with a power sander.

The only way to have a TRUE utopia... Eliminate most freedoms, and keep the population dumb. Of course this may lead to dissent, but that is what death squads are for...

Best post ever.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I would agree entirely with Pratchett...after that the rest must be screened and anything that ignites rebellion will be temporarily banned until the populace gets it through their thick heads that rebellion leads to people getting skinned alive with a power sander.

The only way to have a TRUE utopia... Eliminate most freedoms, and keep the population dumb. Of course this may lead to dissent, but that is what death squads are for...

Best post ever.

Why thank you >=D

 

[TheEggplant]

Penthouse Forum

 

[Jamanticus]

Read : Good Omens
Watch : Connections with James Burke
Listen : The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill on Sea.
Smell : Bacon on freshly baked Bread.
Play : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Feel : A purring cat.
See : The full moon on a hill overlooking the sea with a loved one.
Taste : Freshly squeezed orange juice.

I'm looking for a Dictatorial Utopia.

You just made me feel....What's the word......Happy.

Yes- that's a strange feeling....

I think this list is the best one, especially if we're talking about a dictatorship of an ultramodern world where everyone is cynical.

 

[Labyrinth]

As I am neither illiterate nor unable to think for myself, I'd appreciate it if you'd rethink your "ignorant southerner" rhetoric. Nothing like jumping into a fun thread only to be called crap like that.

>.>

That was an exercise in irony, by the way.

 

[stompy]

I wouldn't make my population read anything. Why trouble the poor proletarians with a troublesome thing as reading, when they can happily live their lives? Only the Inner Party has to trouble itself with such tiresome activities.

As for Inner Party members, The Art of War, works by Nietchze, and The Art of Double Speak. I think that's about it, for now.