What do you think it is 2006?
2006-07-28 02:57:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Actually,the library needs to move it from "fiction"to"current events".
2006-07-28 03:02:54 · answer #1 · answered by twiztidsdad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
It will always be one of my favourite books. It is a universal theme of the individual vs society. It will only ever be considered dated in the same way that it is possible to view William Blake as dated.
For all of our progress, human thought is a very circular thing; returning to ideas time and again. Thimgs aren't necessarily dated just beacause they may not necessarily capture the zeitgeist
For what it is worth, I feel the further our political systems are exposed as being corrupt and idealogically unsound, the more power the book gains. One of the central ideas of the book is that it is not about wealth; the party wants everyone to subscribe to their model of thought. And what do we have? A fundamentalist Christian Imposing democracy across the world. Exploiting the weak and poor and doing so in the name of god
"A hierachical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
2006-07-30 07:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the title and some details are dated, but the message is not.
Total control over everybody is something that many governments and ideological/religious groups try to impose.
Also the picture of a world separated into a few giant "civilizations" that are each other's arch enemies is very up to date. Compare with Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations".
2006-07-28 03:05:31 · answer #3 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa!!!
your telling me it's 2006!
Where has my head been for 3 yrs!
2006-07-30 05:26:22 · answer #4 · answered by Hippie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be quiet about this. Big Brother is watching on channel 9.
2006-07-28 04:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yah, he was WAY off on the development of wall sized TVs.
2006-07-28 03:00:39 · answer #6 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually yes it is .that obviously was not the end if the world as predicted. cause here we are . but it is good reading.
2006-07-28 08:17:09 · answer #7 · answered by extremlyhippie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋