I had never read 1984, so 2020 seemed like the right year to do it with everything we have going on.
I’m happy to report that we’re still not quite there yet in our world. George Orwell was about 100 years early with a lot of this stuff. I think 2084 would have been a better title.
So far, I like the book and see a lot of parallels to our day and age. Things like thought police, rewriting history, pushing a narrative for the good of “the party.”
He was also way off on a few things. Thankfully, we don’t just execute people and wipe the public memory of them because they went and met a new person and had a conversation with them.
He was definitely a little off of you take into account smart phones, but then again even our reality didn’t have smart phones in 1984. The idea of the cameras everywhere was ahead of its time considering the book was written in 1949.
Who else has read this? What conclusions did you draw from it about the direction society is or isn’t going?
I’m happy to report that we’re still not quite there yet in our world. George Orwell was about 100 years early with a lot of this stuff. I think 2084 would have been a better title.
So far, I like the book and see a lot of parallels to our day and age. Things like thought police, rewriting history, pushing a narrative for the good of “the party.”
He was also way off on a few things. Thankfully, we don’t just execute people and wipe the public memory of them because they went and met a new person and had a conversation with them.
He was definitely a little off of you take into account smart phones, but then again even our reality didn’t have smart phones in 1984. The idea of the cameras everywhere was ahead of its time considering the book was written in 1949.
Who else has read this? What conclusions did you draw from it about the direction society is or isn’t going?