2006-12-30 09:58:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Not quite but Orwell would be saying "I told you so" right about now.
2006-12-30 10:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Jamie R 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's a reverse Matrix. The events are real, but your ability to interpret them logically is distorted into thinking what you are told to think about them. TV, for example: you are told to criticize it based on the decadence of the content, but the real evil of it is that it is passive. Therefore, beneficial content is irrelevant as long as you have to become a vegetable in order to receive it.
Why did the people in power allow 1984 to be printed and publicized if it really gives their game away?.
2006-12-30 10:19:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I'd say we're much closer to a "Huxleyan" (Aldous Huxley, author of "Brave New World"
Huxley's dystopia revolved around science, technology, social class determined by genetic engineering, and escapism thru the drug SOMA, which in modern American society could be interpreted as any number of drugs. legal or not, or movies or TV or the inordinate plethora of technological distractions we have available in America.
Orwell's "1984" was more grim and based on totalitarian governments like Nazi Germany or Stalinist USSR.
2006-12-30 10:09:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It certainly feels very much like it. But this not an objective answer. Rather is very subjective based on what is happening in the US at the moment. We are living with a government that wants to know what you read, what you view, what you say - including in e-mails and on the phone. The "Patriot Act" is designed to eat away at our basic rights and we will have to fight to regain those rights if they are lost. Perhaps we are heading for another revolution. We'll see won't we? I would heartily suggest we dump the current administration in 2008 and its allies in every office as soon as possible and VERY CAREFULLY evaluate its successors.
2006-12-30 10:06:28 · answer #4 · answered by momkat 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
In part. The mass of information, manipulated and channelled, is there from 1984. But there's also aspects of late Roman nigthmare:
Bread and circuses to entertain and pacify the mob, and demagogues to arouse them.
Are we getting close to the end of Animal Farm? The heroes becoming more and more like the enemy?
2006-12-30 10:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not exactly. Evil is rife in this world, but if we begin to lose hope, the evil will grow and multiply.
Orwell was a mortal man with an imagination and intelligence to match. But it was sci-fi he was writing.
Must never give up on making things better and justice for the poor.
2006-12-30 10:11:26 · answer #6 · answered by ___ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are living in a world that does not even intimate Orwell's 1984. Did you read the book?
2006-12-30 10:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes we are, but at least nightmares do end.
but the one we live in has the basic Orwell lines, different shapes and names though
2006-12-30 13:08:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ha ha! orwellian is a funny word!
2006-12-31 10:46:21 · answer #9 · answered by The Young Philosopher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely....which is why I advocate the advent of, support any efforts to bring about...and doo all i can to initiate complete and total anarchy....after all ONLY anarchy is real freedom...so if you want to be free...bring on the anarchy...
2006-12-30 13:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋