What things does Orwell warn us about in 1984? How is our society on its way to this?

[canadian19]

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[The Atheist]

This question keeps coming up and it's entirely appropriate.

I think the thing to keep in mind id that every society of humans since the very first one contains elements you can find in 1984, they're no preserve of the 21st century.

My schooldays were well before 1984 and the discussion on whether the world would be like that in 1984 took up probably 100 hours one year.

Orwell wanted every reader of his book to think about the evils he was discussing - from surveillance to freedom of thought and expression to violence. As it says in my sig, orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

In the 21st century, we're lucky to have the greatest ever resource to ensure that orthodoxy never becomes the only way - this very internet thingy.

Think about it for a second - could 1984 arise in a time of universal PC interconnectedness?