1. Thought Police = political correctness
2. Newspeak = text message speak
3. Telescreens = CCTV and flatscreen TVs
4. Emanuel Goldstein = Osama Bin Laden
5. The war with Eurasia = the Iraq war
2006-10-10 13:22:21 · 11 answers · asked by sparky 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I really meant Osama Bin Laden is like Goldstein in that OBL is a hate-figure to whom aggression is directed by the state.
2006-10-10 13:30:52 · update #1
Not a bad fit, is it?
2006-10-10 13:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I understand it correctly and that's not certain but Orwell was taking about governmental control over the masses or a police state and we do have that. How can you change the direction of the government if they don't listen to you and don't give you any real choice by promising the same thing as the other party only bigger at election time. The Iraq war who voted for that one? Constant terror alerts of no real defined threat, control by fear?
2006-10-10 16:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by xpatgary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When TV and movies first began and I was a kid in the 50's.
There was this movie I never forgot. Where the title was 2000
Who would guess there would be a 2000. Our parents were just coming out of ww2. The first television was scary.
They put a plate in this oven similar to a microwave and in a few seconds took it out and there was a hot meal. We now do that.
They had phones with cameras that flipped open on Star trek.
Without a cord?? never! My mom said that is just to ridiculous.
People were afraid to fly. Credit cards were from the devil.
Having a computer and scanner and all the stuff we have today would have been unbelievable to them.
2006-10-10 13:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orwell was writing about the cult of personality that the most evil man ever used - Stalin and the nkvd, the secret police and military - to dominate half the world and America may take some credit in opposing the idealogy but it was the will of the people that forced change and always will be
2006-10-10 13:42:26 · answer #4 · answered by william john l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a proper view of the world you live in. You are not oppressed.
1-pc=manners
2-texting=your choice and a freedom
3-television=more freedom and open forum for discussion
4-Ol' Dirty Laden=a bad guy. are trying to make him out to be something else
5-Iraq=built on lies sure but we have a certain responsibilty to clean up the mess we made so we must stay for now
people follow thought lines generally lefties want to pull out of Iraq, they also protest genocide in Darfur. Saddam's genocide of the Kurds was an atrocity and now will pay because of our intervention. Would you turn around and whine if we intervened in Sudan?
2006-10-10 13:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by veritas8463 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm.... I don't know if the fourth analogy is that accurate. I mean Goldstein stood for freedom of the mind and such. If we looked at this from his point of veiw, he may think of himself as a 'Goldstein' but from our p.o.v. he doesn't really look that great. But everything else is pretty much on the mark.
2006-10-10 13:28:02 · answer #6 · answered by Britt 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that was said about North Korea on the news yesterday and yes your right George Orwells 1984 is among us and upon us.
2006-10-10 16:02:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
2006 where i am
2006-10-10 13:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by llamedos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is bush-blairs 2006... a world of paranoia and misinformation...complete no doubt with its own 101..
we live in paranoid times, where the fear of terrorism is doing the jobs of bombs and bullets...and subduing us, scaring us... allowing us to be coerced and manipulated...
2006-10-10 13:49:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I believe that it is - Orwell was just a tad early.
2006-10-10 13:41:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you forgot the nanny government
2006-10-10 13:25:56 · answer #11 · answered by Jane S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋