Orwell’s 1984 in 2024
Orwell's view of the future:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever.”
This episode provides a summary of Orwell's book and how it relates to our world today.
Big Brother discourages critical thinkers.
Big Brother demands mindless obedience to the state.
To deceive citizens, Big Brother develops a new propagandist language called Newspeak or Doublespeak.
Slogans like "War is peace" Freedom is slavery" and "Ignorance is strength" proliferate throughout society.
To reinforce control, Big Brother set up "Thought Police" and a surveillance state.
if citizens rebel, Big Brother has reeducation camps to make our minds right. You must learn to love the chains Big Brother places upon you.
Important quotes by Orwell:
"The further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“Who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past.”
“Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth.”
Currently, this warning is coming to pass in England and other nations.
This next election will determine whether or not Big Brother will prevail in America or not.
