WE ARE FREE

[amidala]

when i started to read 1984, i also thought it was just fiction, however, i don't agree with people who say it's prophetic. this is not GOING to happen. it has happened before, is happening now and will continue to happen. we are not free. we live in a world forever controled by a government. a government made for men and by men. we may not agree with it but we need one. the hand of the government can smash our head, but also provide us with anything we want. the more we oppose it, the harder life is. every single one of us is a winston. and like he said, things don't change, only your attitude. my blood ran cold when i read the part with all the torture. those are terrible things. and if you look at it, it can happen to any of us. but we may as well spare the trouble. i believe we know nothing, and what we know are just pieces of truth cut and then glued back together. we cannot change that, we cannot pretend to know, we cannot pretend to be free. but we can be conscious that we practically live in heaven. the horrors of totalitarian governments can never even compare to our present life. we are free to smoke as many cigarretes as we like, to drink wine instead of gin, to have sex with the person we love. we may not be free in general terms, we may be watched, we may be heard, but unlike 1984, our feelings can't be controled. we still have some human left inside us. WE ARE FREE. at the end of the day, at the end of your life, political freedom doesn't matter. for people like me, who don't belong anywhere, it doesn't anyway. we belong to ourselves. we may be tortured to the point where we believe wha they tell us, we may be starving to death and confess every sigle crime commited, they may wipe out every trace of human inside us, but even if we died, we would still be free. winston was really free. even more than O'Brien himself. O'Brien was a slave to the party. and the party was just a bunch of slaves. the people like winston had the freedom to choose. as well as we do now. we can oppose a regime that will last forever, or we could try to be in peace with ourselves. not with the government, just yourself. anyway, i liked the book, it's a thrilling experience, and it gets better so, read it!