Most of us have grown up in the generation of awareness of writer who attempted to perceive the future. George Orwell was no different in that respect, but what he wrote of in his classic dystopian novel of 1949.
The only problem with Orwell's analysis? He came about his tilted world of big brother about twenty five years of it actually coming to pass. And those that still believe that Orwell's vision was just some psychosis propelled dream scape?
Need to have a look around and take stock in what is presently happening in America and what has already happened in the UK.
For that matter and to be fair and objective in analysis of George's original premise, he may have been closer to spot on as it concerns the British than us here in America. After all, he was British and he was writing from a British perspective. And they have certainly attempted to live up to his worst expectations in the years since the publication of his famous work 1984.
And America is now following suit with a vengeance. With the advent of the Obama administration, there seems to be an unprecidented rush to relinquish all rights and reason to an omnipresent federal government. And the driving force behind this wave of sentiment, could very easily have been orchestrated for this eventual outcome by the powers that be. On both sides of the political isle.
For it is certainly a Brave new world of one wold and new world order that is daily being forecast and put forth as the only possible cure for what ails us as a nation and as a planet.
Personally? I fear that Orwell's vision was but the tip of the iceberg of what is in store in the near future.
Of course I may be wrong. And the God's of Mount Olympus may continue to allow us to live in bliss and ignorance of that which we know not. But I doubt it,
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It's amazing to me the correlations between Orwell and our present day societies.
Moving ever closer to the omnipresent state of absolute control and no personal freedoms.
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