Created 20 years ago2004-09-13 12:15:41 UTC by MkT
Oh, this is a GREAT novel," "how prophetic," "THEY didn't want you to read it," etc., ad nauseum...From here
1984 IS a great book. It IS prophetic.
But it's a car alarm.
Considering the current social climate, one can't help but make that comparison.
Sure the car alarm is a nifty thing, but who's paying attention to it?
Exactly: no one.
Homeland Security, with its Total Information Awareness database, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids treating with your own property as you wish, government-approved spying on consumers by corporations - foreign AND abroad - the GPS-capable black boxes installed in all new automobiles . . .
These things are happening because YOU are letting them. Those who would presume to select our leaders for us would spew its propaganda that gets more and more outrageous every day - and the public nods obediently, "habilitates" its thought processes and shakes its fists at those who "hate freedom."
Don't crow on about the impact this book has had - judging by the complete capitulation of the lemming-like mob mentality, it has failed its mission to motivate. The eternal price of freedom is vigilance, and those who unquestioningly swallow the Party's line, despite their perceived cleverness in finding a relation to Big Brother within our government, have fallen asleep on the job.
Shut up and go DO something - A N Y T H I N G but nothing.
Nice sig, ZL.It's like a double post.... Only in one post : Confusing
On 1984, the book about Big Brother:
Nice sig, ZL.
On 1984, the book about Big Brother: