Did you read Orwell's 1984?
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I have read that book and Big Brother is definitely watching. :)
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Have you read or looked for any to read?
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The war on terror and the government's response to the threat of terrorism is, in my mind, the strongest echo of 1984 today. The limits on privacy and personal freedoms placed upon us by the Patriot act bring to mind the oppression imposed by Orwell's thought police. Furthermore, the doublespeak employed by the government is clearly an attempt at subtle propaganda. Political doublespeak has been prevalent for decades (if not centuries). This kind of "spin" doesn't just come from the government, but from corporations and the media as well.\n\nThe greatest difference between America today and the world of 1984, however, is the existence of vast communities of dissent that are openly flourishing today. Technology plays a large role in this, as independent viewpoints can be easily distributed to large audiences over the internet. The danger is that technology can be used by the government to increase oppression (NSA, anyone?), and if that happens, we would truly be heading toward an Orwellian world.
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To everybody that does not get this question.\nHe is referring to the novel "1984" by George Orwell.\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/1984.htm In 1984, George Orwell warns of the terrifying dangers that man may create for himself in his quest for a utopian society.  It warns that people might believe that everyone must become slaves to the government in order to have an orderly society, but at the expense of the freedom of the people.\n\n\nAnd yes it has been.
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Read 1984 by George Orwell. Then you will understand. Also read On Liberty, By John Stewart Mill, especially the section on the tyranny of the majority. You might also check up on John Simpsons description of pre revolutionary Romainia. In short, if you agree with absolutely all the Government does, Big Brother is your friend, but if you agree with everything the Goverment does, then you wouldn't have that many friends anyway.
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A lot of what's in the book is happening right now...but the fictional leadership characters in 1984 actually had more smarts and control than their real-world counterparts of today. lol.
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Snowball from George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
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This is the second day after the arrest of the Florida 7 and already I have reservations about what is going on. Could be that it is strictly political because of the November elections. At the time of the writing  this, it looks more and more like an episode of the Keystone Cops and some innocent people may get hurt. I believe that more people should read Orwell's 1984 !
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George Orwell thought we'd have one by 1984, it just came 16 years later.
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It's not math, but 2+2=5 was an important topic in Orwell's 1984.\n\n"He picked up the children's history book and looked at the\nportrait of Big Brother  which  formed  its  frontispiece.  The\nhypnotic  eyes  gazed  into his own. It was as though some huge\nforce were pressing down upon you -- something that  penetrated\ninside  your  skull,  battering against your brain, frightening\nyou out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost,  to  deny  the\nevidence  of  your  senses. In the end the Party would announce\nthat two and two made five, and you would have to  believe  it.\nIt  was  inevitable  that they should make that claim sooner or\nlater: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely  the\nvalidity  of  experience,  but  the  very existence of external\nreality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy  of\nheresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that\nthey would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might\nbe  right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make\nfour? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the  past  is\nunchangeable?  If  both  the  past and the external world exist\nonly in the mind, and if the mind itself is  controllable  what\nthen?\n     But  no! His courage seemed suddenly to stiffen of its own\naccord. The face of O'Brien,  not  called  up  by  any  obvious\nassociation,  had  floated  into  his  mind. He knew, with more\ncertainty than before, that O'Brien was on  his  side.  He  was\nwriting the diary for O'Brien -- to O'Brien: it was like\nan  interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which\nwas addressed to a particular person and took its  colour  from\nthat fact.\n     The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and\nears.  It  was  their  final, most essential command. His heart\nsank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed  against  him,\nthe  ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him\nin debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be  able  to\nunderstand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They\nwere  wrong  and  he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the\ntrue had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that!\nThe solid world exists, its laws  do  not  change.  Stones  are\nhard,  water  is  wet,  objects  unsupported  fall  towards the\nearth's centre. With  the  feeling  that  he  was  speaking  to\nO'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom,\nhe wrote:\n     Freedom  is  the  freedom to say that two plus two make\nfour. If that is granted, all else follows."
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Actually, I haven't read the novel, but a friend of mine told me that many of Orwell's "predictions" were accurate. Try www.sparknotes.com or www.wikipedia.com for some good information on the novel.\n\n1. Your thesis statement is like your main idea. Everything in your essay should work to support it. Your thesis will be something like "George Orwell's masterpiece novel 1984 has had a profound impact on American society."\n\n2. Your introductory paragraph lays out the format for your paper. You may want to start it with your thesis. Better, yet, I'd start with a significant quote from the novel, then explain it, and finally give your thesis statement.\n\n3. Each of your three body paragraphs should have a main idea that supports your thesis statement. First one: "One way the novel has affected the development of American society is...." Transition to the next paragraph with words like "Another result of the novel...." For the third body paragraph, try something like "Perhaps the most significant impact 1984 has had...."\n\n4. Your conclusion should tie together everything you have said so far, and it should end with a broad general statement. Perhaps end with a theme from the novel-- something to leave the reader thinking.
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Read the Communist Manefesto.  Then read Gulag Archepelago by Alexander Soltsenetien
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Varied... Eric Blair was the real name of 'George Orwell' (q.v.).
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1984 it is!  And most of us thought it was just a fictitious premise, but we're are seeing it played out daily.  Scary, Isn't it?\n\nI am more annoyed at the everyday American for allowing themselves to be duped in the first place and to continue to defend the charlatans in the white house and elsewhere.\n\nPlus they would be the first to say they did not support these liars when they finally have no choice but to admit the inventive administration is a major cause of most of the strive in the world.
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Now that is something!?! Read Orson Wells's "1984" to see what happens when you start removing words from the language.... It is not the word that is to blame. It is greedy and senseless people that need to be strangled at birth if we could only know.
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George Orwell - 1984 - published in 1949
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I also want to know who has read that book