Totalitarian Government In George Orwell's 1984

George Orwell brings up the idea of a totally totalitarian government to the reader in his novel 1984. He does this to instill fear into the reader’s mind to show them that they need to watch out for what is to come in the world. The world today is not all the way to being one like in the novel 1984, but it is close, and although people can see everything you do that’s not always a bad thing. Orwell wrote his novel as a worst case scenario situation but the citizens of this world don’t understand that the lives lived today are slowly going down the path of 1984 Oceania. Between everybody’s digital dossier and the willingness to give out information, people could be in some trouble in the near future.
A digital dossier is someone's history that is stored on a digital device. Take a camera for instance, when you take a picture of someone it immediately goes into both of your digital dossiers telling what you were doing and who you were with. The government could easily go into your file and take that information and turn it into a murder case. Luckily we have laws preventing that. The information is still there however. People are constantly watching you and if that doesn’t make you a little uneasy then you are obviously ok with being under the control of Big Brother. Around every corner someone turns there is a security camera watching every move. Telescreens played a big part in the novel as being the “watchdog” of the
US government a little bit of leeway is needed. All the government is asking for is that apple take down the protective barrier on the phone so that they can use their own software to unlock it. They are doing this in the name of public safety, and that is totally ok.
The world is not there but it is on it’s way to being the totalitarian government that Orwell writes about in his novel 1984. And remembering that the novel is a worse case scenario there is no need to be scared, although being mindful wouldn’t