2007-03-27 06:37:12 · 6 answers · asked by chiefmoe 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Have you taken a good look at the current administration?
Seriously, I don't think Orwell envisioned how mass communications would become so splintered and the general public have such access to the ability to engage in the exchange of ideas and information so freely (mostly thanks to the internet).
1984 was in part about the absolute control of the media. I think it is no longer possible for a "Big Brother" to have an iron fist grip on communications.
2007-03-27 06:59:26 · answer #1 · answered by Andy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's already happened with the US. After 2001, the government basically adopted what Orwell's "1984" book indicated.
The FBI said today that it "wasn't the Patriot Act which caused the problems, it was the internal workings of the agency itself--which was the cause."
The director said that they desperately need the expanded powers in order to catch terrorists within our own country. So they need to continue to pry into people's e-mails, personal records, and so on--just to be "safe".
2007-03-27 19:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orwell based his book both on living under strict rationing in the UK during and after the War, and on his projection of what he knew of the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin. It is a dark satire, thus a projection of current trends.
It is indeed no longer possible, if ever it was, to have quite so total a totalitarianism. But you know the old cautionary parable: Drop a frog into cold water and heat it slowly.
2007-03-27 15:15:41 · answer #3 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing....Look around....Although, this is more of a "Brave new world"
2007-03-27 13:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by Romentari 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much.
The shock troops are taking me away n....
2007-03-31 01:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by Nathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a millennium Hitler
2007-03-27 13:44:20 · answer #6 · answered by Curly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋