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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know what Kafkaesque means and I do know what Orwellian means so imma hafta go with Kafkaesque

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It means reminiscent of the works of Franz Kafka, especially the Trial. The main character is put on trial by a nightmarish bureaucracy and never really even knows what he's accused of or how he's supposed to comply with the court's procedure which is also unclear, I think he ends up getting executed. It's a good word for describing how it feels living in America sometimes. Probably better than Orwellian since Orwell kind of sucks and the word itself seems mostly used by chuds for all the wrong stuff.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Wow, you really had to go and ruin my blissful ignorance huh? How Orwellian nineteeneightyfour

Jk ily meow-hug

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always understood it to mean like "cruel, unfair but boring, mundane". Or "bleak to the point of absurdity to an outside viewer".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's a pretty good definition

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm the floor, god do I like big muscular men falling on me :panting:

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh perfect you're just going to assume I'm in the picture then, huh? And how am I supposed to respond to that?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Kafka all the way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Kafka for me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a tiny corncob dril

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I'm the mic hanging from the ceiling

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Orwell is a cop and a snitch so Kafka wins by default edgeworth-shrug

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

How Hegelian

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’m the not pictured bug in the corner (kafka reference)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Loved that breaking bad episode

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Me and my dad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m in the audience shotgunning a wine cooler