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GEORGE ORWELL - 1984 Some might say George Orwell's '1984' was way off the mark, and, in truth, for 1984 it was, but fast forward over 20 years, and things look a little different. We now live in a world with surveillance cameras everywhere, and a Government seizing on terrorism to strip away people's freedoms. Just as in '1984', we are asked to believe, without questioning, that certain countries can change from being our friend to enemy, back to friend again - just like that. Iraq was our friend, then enemy, and now is our friend again. All in 20 years. The working classes in '1984' were kept happy by beer and pornography, and add to that the stupefying plethora of dreadful reality TV shows, which insults our intelligence, then where's the difference - between the leisure time of the working classes of '1984' and now? There's no state torture yet, of course, but '1984' is a warning. If you allow bad things to happen then they will happen. The planned implementation of ID cards, with prison being a very real consequence for those who don't comply, is another example of the slippery slope combined with the greasy pole! Winston Smith is one of literature's great heroes. O'Brien one of its great monsters. Okay, Smith is scared of rats, and suffers agonies of conscience and very real pain, but he takes on the state in his own small way. Big Brother is not someone to be worshipped. Hitler and Stalin gained power because people were slow to spot the danger, and there's Orwell's warning. Let's just keep Room 101 as an offbeat TV show! - Paul Rance/booksmusicfilmstv.com.
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