Today I was reading an article called “We’re living ‘1984’
today” by Lewis Beale. It was very interesting to me because Beale relates the
telescreen, endless war and Newspeak to our lives today. He explains how our
telescreen is social media like Facebook, knowing our likes and dislikes.
Endless War relates to our “so-called war on terror, with no end in sight.”
Newspeak in 1984 is to limit free thought yet we use words like OMG, RU
serious, and ttyl that shows are limited vocabulary. Beale’s analogy was “We
are all Winston Smith and Big brother is the modern surveillance state.” I
agree with what Beale is saying about how we are all like Winston Smith because
we are allowing the government to take control of our cellular devices, emails,
social media, gps, and much more. We are allowing the government to hack into
our personal information and lives, when will we say enough is enough?
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