I started off with text but converted to an audio book. Caveat: I have not checked to see how original it is.
Orwell mentions flat screen TVs that broadcast propaganda and watch and listen to you all the time. After CNN and Edward Snowdon we know how that works. We know about the inverted names like the "Ministry of Love" and "Ministry of Peace". We have Antifa, BLM, Democracy etc.
Then there is the "Memory Hole" where facts disappear. History that is constantly being updated. The Global Warming people use that. Previous temperatures always seem to fall making the current temperature rise look drastic.
Orwell's 1984 is a Warning to the Good PPL of the planet. Some of the elite have used it as an instruction manual to subjugate & control the PPL . What we are seeing today is the manifestation of those concepts put to use.
Every 7th,8th or 9th grade student, should have to read this book, and receive a lecture about what this book portrays, and what it means to being a Free Person, living in a Free Country, or Being a Slave in a Totalitarian Country like Russia, China, Cuba, etc... Where you have NO Rights at all, and are TOLD what to do, where to work, how much food is ration to you / family, etc... The PPL wanting Socialism, should be forced to live in a Totalitarian Country for 6mo to a year. If they still like it, they can stay.
If defectors in the 10000's+ that got out of these country's story's don't convince them of the terrible conditions. Then why are there an extremely FEW PPL that ever defect to those country's...?
I started off with text but converted to an audio book. Caveat: I have not checked to see how original it is.
Orwell mentions flat screen TVs that broadcast propaganda and watch and listen to you all the time. After CNN and Edward Snowdon we know how that works. We know about the inverted names like the "Ministry of Love" and "Ministry of Peace". We have Antifa, BLM, Democracy etc.
Then there is the "Memory Hole" where facts disappear. History that is constantly being updated. The Global Warming people use that. Previous temperatures always seem to fall making the current temperature rise look drastic.
All very prophetic for 1949.
Have read it a few times. Last time I read it about 5 years ago, I thought of this Big Brother "TV" that listens in on you.
Well, most people today voluntarily carry such a thing in their pockets at all time. Food for thought...
Orwell's 1984 is a Warning to the Good PPL of the planet. Some of the elite have used it as an instruction manual to subjugate & control the PPL . What we are seeing today is the manifestation of those concepts put to use.
Every 7th,8th or 9th grade student, should have to read this book, and receive a lecture about what this book portrays, and what it means to being a Free Person, living in a Free Country, or Being a Slave in a Totalitarian Country like Russia, China, Cuba, etc... Where you have NO Rights at all, and are TOLD what to do, where to work, how much food is ration to you / family, etc... The PPL wanting Socialism, should be forced to live in a Totalitarian Country for 6mo to a year. If they still like it, they can stay. If defectors in the 10000's+ that got out of these country's story's don't convince them of the terrible conditions. Then why are there an extremely FEW PPL that ever defect to those country's...?