{"id":1738,"date":"2014-11-18T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2014-11-18T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:39:09","slug":"30-years-later-america-truly-is-becoming-a-1984-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Later, America Truly Is Becoming A \u20181984\u2019 Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/30-years-later-america-truly-is-becoming-a-1984-society?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_reader=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=30-years-later-america-truly-is-becoming-a-1984-society\">30 Years Later, America Truly Is Becoming A \u20181984\u2019 Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">If only George Orwell could see us today.\u00a0 When he wrote \u201c<em>1984<\/em>\u201d back in 1948, he probably never imagined that the \u201c<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"totalitarian, bureaucratic world\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1EOk3D8\" target=\"_blank\">totalitarian, bureaucratic world<\/a>\u201d that he imagined would ever actually become a reality.\u00a0 But that is precisely what is happening.\u00a0 We live at a time when the government monitors\u00a0<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"billions of our phone calls and emails\" href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/21-facts-about-nsa-snooping-that-every-american-should-know\">billions of our phone calls and emails<\/a>and hardly anyone gets upset about it.\u00a0 We live at a time when corporations systematically\u00a0<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"collect our voiceprints\" href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/millions-of-voiceprints-being-collected-by-governments-corporations\" target=\"_blank\">collect our voiceprints<\/a>\u00a0and our televisions\u00a0<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"watch us\" href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/archives\/your-television-is-watching-you\" target=\"_blank\">watch us<\/a>.\u00a0 We live at a time when reporters that try to dig into the misdeeds of the government<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"have their computers hacked\" href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/is-barack-obama-attempting-to-harass-and-intimidate-media-personalities-on-his-enemies-list\">have their computers hacked<\/a>, and when\u00a0<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"nearly one out of every three Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/10\/21\/1-in-3-americans-are-on-file-with-the-fbi-in-the-u-s-police-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly one out of every three Americans<\/a>\u00a0has a file in the FBI\u2019s master criminal database.\u00a0 The control freaks that run our society are absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, recording and monitoring virtually everything that we do.\u00a0 We truly are becoming a \u201c<em>1984<\/em>\u201d society, and if we continue on the path that we are currently on eventually our world will be transformed into something more hellish than anything that George Orwell ever imagined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">These days, virtually every type of government surveillance is taken to the extreme.\u00a0 For example, there is definitely nothing wrong with normal undercover police work.\u00a0 But these days, almost every single federal government agency conducts extensive undercover operations.\u00a0 At this point, even the IRS and the Department of Agriculture rely on undercover operatives to spy on ordinary citizens.\u00a0 So the next time you are visiting a tax preparer, buying a yacht or attending a peaceful political protest, the person standing next to you\u00a0<a style=\"color: #109fed; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"just might be a government spy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/16\/us\/more-federal-agencies-are-using-undercover-operations.html\" target=\"_blank\">just might be a government spy<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 Years Later, America Truly Is Becoming A \u20181984\u2019 Society. If only George Orwell could see us today.\u00a0 When he wrote \u201c1984\u201d back in 1948, he probably never imagined that the \u201ctotalitarian, bureaucratic world\u201d that he imagined would ever actually become a reality.\u00a0 But that is precisely what is happening.\u00a0 We live at a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1212,1211,765,1213],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-george-orwell","tag-surveillance","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}