What one book contains the most valuable lessons on government that every citizen of the country should become familiar with? The Federalist Papers? Plato’s Democracy? Seems to me that some of this stuff would be a lot more valuable than Romeo and Juliet or anne frankly’s diary or whatever passes for a civics class these days
Inb4 Starship Troopers
We read animal farm and lord of the flies In my school, but this was done in the context of “English” as opposed to really digging into what those books were saying about government.
Never read 1984 but Brave New World instead…
What’s kind of fucked is it almost feels like they made these books required reading not to serve as a warning but more to serve as a “this is where we’re going to drag you kicking and screaming” lol
yeah, they are presented by shitlib teachers as a dive into literary culture and history for the most part. There was hardly any emphasis on what the author was trying to warn us about.
For me, Animal Farm was purposefully assigned in parallel with our unit on the russian revolution, so that was good.
animal farm was better than 1984 in my opinion. somehow it's more approachable, and gives a better feel for how socialism makes things incrementally worse while pretending it's making things better.