1984 By George Orwell

1984, a dystopian novel by George Orwell, warns of a future where the government has total control over its people. While it may have sounded ridiculous in the past, as time progresses Orwell’s vision is slowly coming to life in modern American society. With new technologies arising at a faster rate, a world dominated by the government is inevitable. A major example is the NSA organization. Edward Snowden, a former employee of the NSA, leaked information showing the government organization invading the privacy of many Americans citizens in 2013. The NSA wired into people’s private accounts through data clouds, like Google and Yahoo, in order to find incriminating information. This caused a controversy with American citizens, increasing paranoia of what the government may or may not have seen. of the NSA privacy invasion documents, the Senate released horrific documents of torture inflicted on prisoners. Some include sleep deprivation, waterboarding, and even
In 1984 the governmental news lies about supposedly good statistics to its citizens, in order to keep the population under a false sense of safety. In real life, a famous news anchor named Brian Williams lost his job due to a recent discovery that some or even all of his major news coverage was embellished for attention, thus not giving the truth on the situations he was covering. While this is not directly by the government, it causes people to wonder what is actually fact from fiction on the news. In 1984 the news is shown through the people’s technologies, much like how we receive news today. Technology is advancing, improving our technological lives, but at a cost. Screens limit our contact with other humans, leading to more solitary, and less social lives. In Orwell’s novel, the Party heavily promoted a non-social, more secluded lifestyle for all of its members. This is another warning mentioned in George Orwell’s