![]() Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by not only Orwell but also such fiction writers as Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, and Philip K Dick. The government, or "Party," is headed by Big Brother, who appears on posters everywhere with the words: "Big Brother is watching you." People are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought-crimes. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!” - George Orwellġ984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. Who could have predicted that 70 years after Orwell typed the final words to his dystopian novel, “He loved Big Brother,” we would fail to heed his warning and come to love Big Brother. ![]() It’s been 70 years since Orwell - dying, beset by fever and bloody coughing fits, and driven to warn against the rise of a society in which rampant abuse of power and mass manipulation are the norm - depicted the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. “You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” - George Orwell, 1984 ![]()
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