1984 by George Orwell
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.'
I had never read 1984 in high school or college, for some odd reason. Given our current environment, I thought it was finally time I read it.
There are so many things that I can see happening in our lives today. For instance the Two Minutes Hate reminded me of when those snowflakes were screaming because Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.
Fact checkers on social media are censoring any opinions they don't agree with and only promote the ones that aline with their narrative. It was just recently revealed that Facebook uses an algorithm to rate people who express vaccine hesitancy. Frack off, Thought Police.
Not to mention how we have our version of Newspeak when people police what terms are politically correct or incorrect. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
We're living in the prequel to 1984. Big Tech and Big Pharma are Big Brother. And they know what they are doing. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
I say it's time to break up these monopolies and abolish the "fact checkers".
This is one of my favorite quotes: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Reminds me of these Marxists who want to rewrite history by teaching their 1619 project in schools and are pushing critical race theory on children.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
1984 is very different to the way dystopian novels are written today. Today they are turned into trilogies and the heroes win in the end. This does not end happy. But it was also not unexpected.
When I got to part three I actually took a few days off from reading because I was so angry. I wanted to rip O'Brien a new one.
After I finished reading I watched this PragerU Book Club video about 1984. Which I think is an interesting discussion.
George Orwell’s novel, 1984, portrays a dystopian world where Big Brother reigns supreme. Today, however, Orwell’s warning against totalitarianism reads more like a newspaper than a work of fiction. Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report, joins Michael Knowles to dissect the pages of this classic work.
5 out of 5 Victory Coffees.