1984
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Do you think George Orwell intentionally created an unrealistic depiction of 1984?
Kaitlyn
Dec 03, 2019 05:11PM
John Green said that Orwell made a mistake/was incorrect when he predicted that the arrival of 1984 would put a thirteen on everyone's clocks. Orwell also added many other presently "inaccurate" things when he predicted that all citizens were under constant surveillance and were capable of committing thought crimes. Do you think he created these inaccurate things on purpose or did he actually predict that 1984 would be the way that he depicted it in the book?
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Inaccurate? I'd say Orwell was way, way, wayyyyy ahead of his time if anything. The book was originally released in 1949 and remains just as culturally relevant today as it was back then.
I agree with Nir Regev, though to me I think our society it coming even closer to something like the dystopia of Brave New World
I agree with you Randall, Brave New World matches how people numb themselves with media.
As others have said the book was way ahead of it's time. It is surprisingly relevant today, the lessons that can be taken away from this story are important.
I don't know that it was meant to be a prediction of 1984, if I had to guess the inclusion of peculiarities like the number 13 added to the clock were merely for his own amusement in writing, for isn't it a joy to write your own world in fiction?
The constant surveillance can be seen nowadays as the way websites track and handle your information, the cameras that exist everywhere, devices in your home that are admittedly always listening and much more. These were fears that I'm sure that Orwell had when writing this, he feared where the world may end up.
Furthermore, the influence of the media and rewriting history is not to hard nowadays is it? An article online can be edited and remain for everyone to see, how long until it no longer needs to be broadcast it was edited? I am not trying to sound paranoid but I believe this could be a conclusion Orwell may have written about if he was able to travel through time and enter today's world.
While he didn't get the specifics of it right and I don't believe he meant to, he was surprisingly aware of what kind of future we were heading towards.
I don't know that it was meant to be a prediction of 1984, if I had to guess the inclusion of peculiarities like the number 13 added to the clock were merely for his own amusement in writing, for isn't it a joy to write your own world in fiction?
The constant surveillance can be seen nowadays as the way websites track and handle your information, the cameras that exist everywhere, devices in your home that are admittedly always listening and much more. These were fears that I'm sure that Orwell had when writing this, he feared where the world may end up.
Furthermore, the influence of the media and rewriting history is not to hard nowadays is it? An article online can be edited and remain for everyone to see, how long until it no longer needs to be broadcast it was edited? I am not trying to sound paranoid but I believe this could be a conclusion Orwell may have written about if he was able to travel through time and enter today's world.
While he didn't get the specifics of it right and I don't believe he meant to, he was surprisingly aware of what kind of future we were heading towards.
I think that Orwell was not trying to accurately describe how 1984 would be like; he was trying to warn us about the totalitarian mindset and how the said mindset would turn human beings into meek and blating sheeps.
I think 1984 is a work of genius, although he wasn't really predicting our future, he was talking more of what was happening at the USSR at the time. He was warning what would happen to us if the communists increased their influence beyond their borders into western Europe.
Regarding, 'Big Brother,' now. We have openly enslaved ourselves by monitoring ourselves on 'social media' and giving away our locations by telling everyone every nano detail of our boring lives.
Regarding, 'Big Brother,' now. We have openly enslaved ourselves by monitoring ourselves on 'social media' and giving away our locations by telling everyone every nano detail of our boring lives.
