Most countries have at least a few dozen countries they can travel to without a visa and visas are easy to obtain anyway, so if you ever want to take a break from the rat race, all you need is a plane ticket to a destination with a favorable exchange rate, and with a thousand dollars of savings you can take a hiatus from working or work on a creative project you’re interested in for months or years, depending on your lifestyle.
Spoilers for 1984 - so if you didn’t get assigned that book in high school, look away I guess.
The villainous government in 1984 has a special “re-education” room they torture dissidents in. Famously no one knows what’s inside - but everyone knows. It’s simply “the worst thing in the world”. The surveillance state - knowing everyone’s worst fear - then puts people in contact with their worst fears in order to break their mind and coerce them to obey.
The protagonist of 1984 is pathological terrified of rats. So when the government breaks him, they lock his head in a cage with a rat in front and threaten to open the door keeping the rat away from his face…
Most countries have at least a few dozen countries they can travel to without a visa and visas are easy to obtain anyway, so if you ever want to take a break from the rat race, all you need is a plane ticket to a destination with a favorable exchange rate, and with a thousand dollars of savings you can take a hiatus from working or work on a creative project you’re interested in for months or years, depending on your lifestyle.
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.
Get out of that maze!
Sorry, I don’t get the relevance of the reference?
As far as I understand, it’s from 1984?
I never saw the movie so I might be missing some context here.
Spoilers for 1984 - so if you didn’t get assigned that book in high school, look away I guess.
The villainous government in 1984 has a special “re-education” room they torture dissidents in. Famously no one knows what’s inside - but everyone knows. It’s simply “the worst thing in the world”. The surveillance state - knowing everyone’s worst fear - then puts people in contact with their worst fears in order to break their mind and coerce them to obey.
The protagonist of 1984 is pathological terrified of rats. So when the government breaks him, they lock his head in a cage with a rat in front and threaten to open the door keeping the rat away from his face…
Which is the scene above.
Okay. I’ve read the book, but it’s been a while. And I’ve never seen the movie.
Thanks
The rat is about to get out…