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Topic History of: 1984 - published 60 years ago; still incredible - check this thread out; it covers more.
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JK2006	I am actually rereading it at this very moment and it is TERRIFYINGLY accurate. Read between the lines and we are there and then some. Plus it is still a hell of a good novel.
BR	Seems that the UK Education system is based on ORWELL's 1984 according to an Oxford research study.....when will the public ( Sheeple ) wake up. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191689...upils-customers.html
zooloo	Hamlet wrote: I used to like 1984 however I think the book is very dated. Its basically taking a swing at Stalinist regimes, which are now gone bar North Korea. As a prediction of the future it was largely wrong. Sure you can point to the growth of CCTV & DNA databases etc however the main features of the regime & society depicted did not come to be. A far better novel is Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'. 1084 covers the British class system equally well, even the vestiges that remain. It only applies to Stalin is a misnomer. I do like like Huxley though
Hamlet	I used to like 1984 however I think the book is very dated. Its basically taking a swing at Stalinist regimes, which are now gone bar North Korea. As a prediction of the future it was largely wrong. Sure you can point to the growth of CCTV & DNA databases etc however the main features of the regime & society depicted did not come to be. A far better novel is Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'.
BR	Repeating a message tirelessly is the way in which Capitalism sells things - and the way Politics is now organised. Today all LABOUR politicians are saying the "same phrases" which have been written by their spin doctors. All TORIES are saying roughly the same as Cameron. The more they REPEAT their mantras - the more the public understands the simplistic "truth" about what they stand for. Advertising slogans work - Coke is the Real Thing ! for instance. That is why it sells truckloads every day despite not being a very pleasant drink. The human race is hardwired at the moment to conform - and to follow the simplistic slogan. So when COWELL does X Factor - everyone dutifully goes out and buys the record etc. We are SHEEPLE. 1984 shows how this can be taken to an extreme of control. Yes - it is happening and we now have the "Means" to make that scenario happen. It is up to us all to FIGHT AGAINST ID Cards - FIGHT AGAINST CCTV - FIGHT AGAINST DATABASES that CONTROL US - and state interference in our lives. If we give up this fight then we dont deserve freedom.