So Are We Living In 1984 By George Orwell

Based on what I’ve read in 1984 and the New Yorker, our world, though not as oppressive, has become similar to Oceania. From tracking to silencing other’s opinions, it is hard to see the line between living in Ocean and living in America. In “So Are We Living in 1984?”, Crouch, the author, notes that our forms of communications (e-mails, texts, conversations, etc.) are constantly under scrutiny, similar to Winston’s world where “letters [are] opened in transit” and “[the Thought Police] plugged in on any individual wire”(1 - 2. 1. 1, 63). As the author suggests, citizens of both societies go under heavy surveillance; private conversations are essentially non-existent. In addition to that, in 1984, anyone who appears to go against what is