IF YOU’VE ever read the book 1984 by George Orwell you’ll be familiar with how eerily familiar the circumstances in the book are. It’s interesting to know the 1940s yet it applies to so many truths in our modern world.
Alright, you may be thinking I’m exaggerating things; we don’t have Telescreens and Thought Police that monitor our every thought and move. However, these entities do exist, just in a different form.
Our Telescreen may not be literal surveillance monitors, but we have developed other ways to stalk each other.
With the development of technology people have easier access to each other’s lives. We can view a person’s location, emotion and thought with the right keyword and the click of a button.
We may not be using Newspeak, but I dare say we are starting to develop a communication process similar to that. People depend on acronyms and memes to share ideas; this isn’t always bad but it’s definitely a more degraded form of language.
How about the Thought Police? Well, look around you! Share any controversial or unusual opinion and you will have a flock of people nitpicking at you like vultures. They can find ways to dig up a can of worms and use it against you, until you snap.
We’re unconsciously fulfilling the prophecy George Orwell predicted for us. It doesn’t seem threatening, but how much do we have until we end up in a dystopian nation like Oceania?
Several countries are already falling into this pit, with a very steep way out. How much longer until the whole world falls into chaos?
Will we even notice when it happens? It’s likely we are going to be brainwashed to think that this messy and corrupt system is normal, just like the citizens of London in 1984.
Honestly, it’s a terrifying thought./PN
