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Who's Watching Big Brother. Nineteen Eighty-four plus Twenty-two 1984 has come
and gone. The cold war is over. The collapse of oppressive ...
... you what to do and always watching every movement ... other than hatred or the one
?Big Brother? tells you to. ... affairs were handled, they decided who got how ...
... police, a faction of the government which deals with those who do not ... a poster of
Big Brother and reading slogans such as "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" and ...
... police, a faction of the government which deals with those who do not ... a poster of
Big Brother and reading slogans such as "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" and ...
... police, a faction of the government which deals with those who do not ... a poster of
Big Brother and reading slogans such as "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" and ...
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Nineteen Eighty-four plus Twenty-two
1984 has come and gone. The cold war is over. The collapse of oppressive totalitarian regimes leads to the conclusion that these governments by their nature generate resistance and are doomed to failure. The fictional world of George Orwell’s novel, 1984, is best described as hopeless; a nightmarish dystopia where the omnipresent State enforces perfect conformity among members of a totalitarian Party through indoctrination, propaganda, fear, and ruthless punishment. In the aftermath of the fall of capitalism and nuclear war, the world has been divided among three practically identical totalitarian nation-states. A state of perpetual war and poverty is the rule in Oceania. However, this is merely a backdrop, far from the most terrifying aspect of life in 1984; a total loss of individual freedom, thought, and privacy in exchange for false security and obedience to a totalitarian government.
Was Orwell describing something which he saw in his own lifetime, or, was he projecting a warning of things to come? How relevant is 1984 to modern society?
Most Americans don’t want to live in an Orwellian society under the heavy surveillance of Big Brother, but we do. Like it or not, we live in a society that accepts virtual strip searches at airports; surveillance cameras; "discount" cards that record our buying habits; bar codes; "cookies" and spywear on our computers; on-line access to satellite technology that can image our back yards; and microchip radio frequency identification devices that are already implanted in our family dogs and soon to be integrated into our groceries, our credit cards, our cash, and our new underwear. It is feasible that, in the not too distant future, our newly born will be “micro-chipped” before leaving the hospital delivery room.
There are all sorts of businesses that have records of what medications we take and why. Many aspects of our lives are available on the Internet....
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