I'm living in a timewarp .... are we in still in 1984..??

Question

Are we all living life as if on some reality TV show... ?

Sort of like the TRUMAN SHOW ... but where we are all the stars.

In light of the recent report that britain has 20% of the worlds spy cameras ... what do you reckon ... where are we

The TRUMAN SHOW ... 1984

...and how long till we get to GATTICA

By the way .. feel free to vote on this on my 360 ;-)

Answer 1

Hello Bad B,

THIS IS THE TRUMAN SHOW errrrrrrrrrrrrrm AND YOU ARE THE STAR

I think in a way you're right it has become a bit 1984, but not just with cameras, also the intervention from nanny state, telling us what to eat drink how to bring up our children. The seemingly innocuous television programs encouraging us to make judgements on other peoples lives and behaviours just to make us passive and keeping our passion for right in a twilight world of button pushing computer matriarchal mother ship community. ohhh bog I'm off for a cup of tea.

Answer 2

Yes, we are living in Orwell's 1984. It just looks a little prettier. Kind of like The Truman Show.

Aside from the surveillance cameras, corporations and governments are tracking us, and making assumptions about us, in many other ways. Our browsing habits on the Internet, our text messages to each other, how many phone calls we make and who we are calling, our purchasing habits if we use credit or debit cards, and all the information we fill out in all those forms we're required to fill out are all bought, sold and traded among corporations and government agencies. Naturally, people can't make much sense of it all, so they use software to sort through it and guess what it means about me, or you.

But, wait, there's more.

Orwell described a society that was constantly involved in one pointless war or another to help unify people against an enemy and rally them for the state. Sound familiar?

Orwell thought there would be three social classes, a tiny elite class, with all the power and money, a small middle class, which is barely comfortable but never questions the system, and a large underclass of people with few resources and even less hope for change. Look around.

Orwell believed organizations could control how people think by controlling language. Political correctness, marketing lingo, and corporate and government PR all do exactly the same thing, and they do it relentlessly. Doublethink and newspeak have been here for decades.

And I think Gattaca has been here for a while too. You don't need genetic engineering to "profile" people, all you really need are credentials, records, and silly assumptions. That's already happened. After all, can you really get a job without the right profile today?

Answer 3

Too true. It is more subtle than George Orwells prediction, but then he did write it in 1948 of course.

I think if we truely knew what was going on the media would have us all taking tablets to calm us down.

It is shocking though to think that Britain has the record for all these cameras.... What about America where do they stand?

As for Truman (great film) but isn't that how we live today (through the TV the biggest camera of all).

Answer 4

Yes... George Orwell was a very clever man, he predicted we would be manipulated and watched and controled, Long before his time... Anyway, all these cameras and adverts and congestion charge its all to tell us what to do and stick to the boundries and follow the rules that someone else has thought out... Really we are not so free. When you go to another country like for example Turkey, you realise they have a lot more freedom, nobody cares what people do and they are happy the way they are, even though there is poverty just goes to show, what really makes people happy. And through all this choice really there is not much!

What is Gattica?

Answer 5

There were no cameras like that in 1984! Just joking! Yes, it's ture, we have the largest number of the worlds CCTV cameras. Recently I had a visitor from abroad and he was absolutely astonished by this and it disturbed him a bit. He said if you are cheating on your partner then you can't really hide and if your partner's friend works for them and watches you that's it for you! You are caught! Real criminals never get caught, and you'd better remember that!

Answer 6

Listening to my Local Radio station, yeah I would say 1984...possibly 1985...please no more Starship building a city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, I worked for a large retail co. and an employee was breaking in (with key) out of hours - caught on shopping centre CCTV but breach of human rights if we were to see tape. AAAaaaaaaaaaaargh....

Answer 7

Actually, Orwell meant 1948 when he wrote 1984. Nobody was interested then. Most people don't even know what it means. As long as they are happy and comfy.

Answer 8

i think the truman show is alot like my life too, im off in a min to find the stage door in the sky.

Answer 9

We are all being watched. All we can be thankful for is the lack of imagination of the people doing the watching. So do the unexpected!

Dip your pen in a centipede, write letters on a badger!

Answer 10

Yes, yes we are. And no one really notices it. One can't use the adage, "If I'm not doing anything wrong, what do I have to worry about?".

You have lots to worry about. Keep your freedoms, don't trade for government-imposed security. And look up the Patriot Act, and why it's been extended.