There have been multiple threads on some other websites in the last couple days about the soaring sales of Orwell’s 1984 since the Snowden story broke. Here is a link to its’s current ranking:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/books/ref=zg_bsms_nav_mov_1_mov?tag=vglnkc4772-20#1
In the last 24 hours it has gone from the 12,849th best selling book on Amazon to the 184th best selling, a 6,888% increase. It seems a few people are interested in what is going to happen next in this country. Our beloved government has been using Orwell’s Dystopian Novel as a blueprint for controlling the masses in this country and it has worked like a charm.
Fourth Turnings are all about mood change. Do you think the mood in this country is darkening or brightening? The captured corporate MSM is desperately attempting to spin our rapidly deteriorating situation into a recovery storyline through their usual propaganda techniques. It’s failing.
It is clear to me that those in power are losing control of the situation. Their financial schemes are blowing up in their faces. Their propaganda machine continues to function, but less and less people are listening. Their unending wars are bankrupting the country and creating enemies around the globe. Now their Orwellian surveillance state methods have been revealed. An angry minority are sick and tired of seeing the U.S. Constitution trampled. The existing social order is crumbling. They will not relinquish their power, wealth and control without a fight. But they will lose. They will be swept away and replaced by a new social order. It could be an all powerful Orwellian dictatorship or we could create something better. That is up to us.
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ReplyDeleteI am convinced that the new xbox is the mirror on the wall. It's always functional, has voice recognition capabilities, requires an Internet connection, MS has a patent to use a camera to count the number of people in a room, and we have an infrastructure at the federal level to store and scrub any kind of communication that goes across any network. All of the pieces are in place...do you think that these people would fail to take advantage of the system?
ReplyDeleteI read it for the first time last summer. It was chilling.
ReplyDeleteWe had to read this in the 8th grade, back in the middle 1980's. It is terrifying to see how parallel our lives are with this book.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I can't imagine this being required reading these days..
Hmmmmm I wonder
ReplyDelete3:21. I remember from the same time period an English class called Modern American Writers and Orwell was one of the those studied. I'd be curious to see if they even dare to mention his name in public high schools/universities anymore.