Subscribe Feed (RSS)Nineteen Eighty-Four (abbreviated to 1984), by George Orwell, published in 1949, is a dystopian novel about the totalitarian regime of “the Party”. Most of the book was written by Orwell in 1948. He switched around the last digits of that year to arive at the title of the book.
Orwell’s message in this book according to the author himself was a simple one, it can be summed up as “as a show-up of the perversions . . . which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. . . . The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.”
“He who controls the past, controls the future”
From Wikipedia.org: “A major theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four is censorship, which is displayed especially in the Ministry of Truth, where photographs are doctored and public archives rewritten to rid them of “unpersons”. In the telescreens, figures for all types of production are grossly exaggerated (or simply invented) to indicate an ever-growing economy, when in reality there is stagnation, if not loss.”
“The effect of Nineteen Eighty-Four on English language is extensive, having incorporated the concepts of Big Brother, Room 101, the Thought Police, unperson, memory hole (oblivion), doublethink (simultaneously holding and believing contradictory beliefs) and Newspeak (ideological language) as usages for totalitarian authority. Doublespeak is an elaboration of doublethink, the adjective “Orwellian” denotes “characteristic and reminiscent of George Orwell’s writings” especially Nineteen Eighty-Four. This originated the suffixes “–speak” and “–think”, i.e. “groupthink” and “mediaspeak”, for thoughtless conformity. Orwell is perpetually associated with the year 1984.”
Check out this video from Keith Olbermann’s cable TV show about Fox News and how close it has brought us to the real 1984.
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