Big Brother
“Those who would trade their liberties for a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”. That quote by Benjamin Franklin described mindset that leads to totalitarian government. The British novelist, George Orwell is known for his chilling governmental satire. Animal Farm, his other well-known novel is a look into the past, his novel 1984 was a eerie prophecy into the not so distant future. This view of a negative Utopia has become so well known that people who believe in his theory are called Orwellian. But do we exist in a manner similar to the prophecy of the world in which he claimed to be what life would be like in 1984? The an
However other nations of this world, the Peoples Republic of China comes to mind, where they live in a semi-Orwellian world. That’s what they would have said in Germany in the twenties or Russia in the Pre-World War One era. Closing, we do not as of today live in the society, which Orwell predicted. The most important way in which we can prevent turnining into an Orwellian society is to not be able to be misled. Ironically one of the greatest differences in our society and the society of Orwell, is that in 1984, the gene which leads to sex has been suppressed. When Orwell published 1984, this seemed to be a logical conclusion that such an event might happen. We still maintain a level of personal freedom in the United States greater than that described in 1984. For In our society promiscuity and suggestiveness have gotten maybe not more common but certainly more public. Part of the power base in 1984 has its power exclusively through the deception of the people. It can happen here and it shall if we do not remember the lesson of the American President Thomas Jefferson “The Price of liberty is Eternal Vigilance”. In this aspect Our Society more resembles the other most famous novel of a negative utopia, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. However we do share some similarities. To prevent the society of which we live from becoming Orwellian we must stave off apathy. For it is a slippery slope and if we take the first step down it we could live in an Orwellian totalitarian state.
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