What the Hell?

[blazeofglory]

In point of fact I have found 1984 a wonderful read and I read it in 1984 the year it was released and the writer kind of imagined of a world in which the world would be governed by totalitarians. The sentence ' the big brother is watching you is something that has deeply been set in my memory chamber. As he imagined there is no communism today ruling the world but what is more there are worse things happening than communism. Capitalism is worse in some respect, and we know all why the Bush Government launched a series of attacks over Iraq. There is interest, oilfields or petrodollar in point of fact. As Chomsky said hegemony is on and this hegemony is likened to totalitarianism in substance.

[Paulclem]

In point of fact I have found 1984 a wonderful read and I read it in 1984 the year it was released and the writer kind of imagined of a world in which the world would be governed by totalitarians. The sentence ' the big brother is watching you is something that has deeply been set in my memory chamber. As he imagined there is no communism today ruling the world but what is more there are worse things happening than communism. Capitalism is worse in some respect, and we know all why the Bush Government launched a series of attacks over Iraq. There is interest, oilfields or petrodollar in point of fact. As Chomsky said hegemony is on and this hegemony is likened to totalitarianism in substance.

Much as i like 1984, it is a book of its time - post war austerity, murderous dictatorial regimes, and a kind of provincial British feel. Like lots of sci-fi, it is good at extrapolating current problems into a distant fictional future.

The brilliance of is in the more abstract ideas such as newspeak and Big Brother, though these concepts have not been realised as they were envisaged, but have grown way beyond orwell's original conception of them.