ORWELLIAN
An
intelligence official warning political changes of US administrations
How this famous quote will affect elections
http://www.thenewage.co.za/86983-1024-53-Orwellian_speak_is_on_the_biscuit_even_today
Talks
about how todays life is like
Orwellian life with low employment rates and economic depression
The prevalence of Orwell
Orwell’s 1984 continues to reverberate in
modern culture, decades after it was first written. The word Orwellian, was
used in a news article just yesterday. It been mentioned hundreds of times over
the past months. Of course it is always
used for political purposes, such as in one article was saying how a former American intelligence official has warned against the political
maneuvering of successive US administrations for manipulating classified
information to tighten their grip on the executive power. In this it talks about many things that were
not allowed to be said, this refers back to 1984 as people cannot have their
own voice as constantly being watched by telescreens. Thoughtcrime is thought
as completely wrong today as it was in the book 1984, an article from Nevada
states how a criminal should not be motivated by “hate”. A recent article that I found states how ‘Big
Data’ is the next Big Brother. These days, there is so much information about
every person in the world, even normal people like us sitting in the class
today, stored all over the internet or any other sources that there may be. You
could say that our lives today are very much alike to those in 1984. CCTV is
spread all around the UK meaning that we are constantly being watched/listened
to which is absoloutley no different to George Orwell’s 1984 where they are constantly
being watched by telescreens. Orwell’s book has changed the way that we think today with many people now
having different views about not just political purposes but every day life
situations that there are.
Above: A photo of an example of constantly being watched.
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