5/10/2023 0 Comments 1984 george orwell essay![]() 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list this week, after Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Trump, described demonstrable falsehoods told by the White House press secretary Sean Spicer - regarding the size of inaugural crowds - as “alternative facts.” It was a phrase chillingly reminiscent, for many readers, of the Ministry of Truth’s efforts in “1984” at “reality control.” To Big Brother and the Party, Orwell wrote, “the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. A world in which the government insists that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” - but rather, “whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.” (Hey, Alexa, what’s up?) A world of endless war, where fear and hate are drummed up against foreigners, and movies show boatloads of refugees dying at sea. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe the National Security Agency) is always listening in, and high-tech devices can eavesdrop in people’s homes. The dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984” suddenly feels all too familiar. ![]()
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