As such, it's no different than (and in my opinion, infinitely more fun to read) 1984.
Oh 1984 is pretty parodic, considering that it's a tale about how evil totalitarian dictatorships will view middle civil servants getting laid as an existential threat – like with atlas shrugged, the use of political theory to turn incredibly benign and mundane concepts into grand world shaking drama in some sort of inversion of Joyce's Ulysses renders pretty much the entirety of those kinds of books into things that are ultimately auto-parodic.
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Oh 1984 is pretty parodic, considering that it's a tale about how evil totalitarian dictatorships will view middle civil servants getting laid as an existential threat – like with atlas shrugged, the use of political theory to turn incredibly benign and mundane concepts into grand world shaking drama in some sort of inversion of Joyce's Ulysses renders pretty much the entirety of those kinds of books into things that are ultimately auto-parodic.