![]() ![]() But this control is through pleasure – not through fear and terror. This is a world where like 1984 people are controlled. So, while Orwell’s vision has not been made real with the extremes of the book, it’s far from being inaccurate. I think I will keep this short and sweet: it would seem in the last 18 months the only thing that has happened in the world is the Coronavirus! ![]() I didn’t learn properly about the atrocities of the British Empire until I left school, I didn’t know about King Leopold, I didn’t know what capitalism was, and the only thing I knew about Malcolm X was his name! The most important things to ever happen in the world were the world wars – and apparently nothing else is significant. My school decides for me that I must study WW1. I could be interested in Castro and the Cuban Revolution. For example, English and History curriculums disallow a student interested in the history of ancient Japan. It’s everywhere, from school curriculums, deciding what we must learn, to the mainstream news, deciding what’s newsworthy. However, the vision that rings truest is that of information control. For our thoughts being controlled, we know that there are certain opinions about the world we are not allowed to have with outrage culture stomping down on them. For surveillance we have the algorithms of social media and Youtube that will absolutely bombard you with content related to that one click. What they think is controlled, what they say is controlled, and the information they consume is heavily controlled. In 1984, citizens are constantly under surveillance. I used these books as a means of escape from our time, but they began to read as prophecies. Well the two books Brave New World and 1984 felt a bit too real. I like to envision how much worse it could be and how people would handle these events. One way I like to relax is with a good bit of classic literature, mainly Sci Fi, I like to read these books and imagine a different world, where the events of the books are happening in my own life. ![]()
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