It just goes to show that we as a people have always had trouble with dictator types. Big brother is real. What I remember most about the novel was the thought police and re-writing of history. Doesn't that sound familiar? The enemy keeps changing from Eurasia to Eastasia, just depends on which one the government wants to use for the moment. Iraq, Iran, Al Qaeda; you know how it goes. The book was a warning about government's power.
What is really scary to me now, is that we the people don't learn from our collective mistakes. I can fully believe that sometime in our lifetime there will be another attempt to commit genocide to "cleanse" the world for the ruling race. We have already accepted the genocide happening in South Africa, we have approved torture, we have accepted the killing of at least 100,000 innocent Iraqis and we are letting Israel build a wall. We (US) are responsible for this because this is our government.
Ignorance is Strength - indeed.
On-line version of 1984
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/Sonia
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