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Nineteen Eighty-Four Turns 70 Years Old In A World That Looks A Lot Like The Book <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This month, George Orwell\u2019s legendary novel Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em><\/a> turns 70 years old, and the warnings contained within the story are now more relevant than ever. Orwell\u2019s predictions were so spot on that it almost seems like it was used as some type of accidental instruction manual for would-be tyrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, there is an all-encompassing surveillance state that keeps a watchful eye on everyone, in search of possible rebels and points of resistance. Censorship is the norm in this world, and is so extreme that individuals can become \u201cunpersons\u201d who are essentially deleted from society because their ideas were considered dangerous by the establishment. This is an idea that is very familiar to activists and independent journalists who are being removed from the public conversation for speaking out about government and corporate corruption on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orwell is famous for coining the term \u201cdouble-speak,\u201d which is a way to describe the euphemistic language that government uses to whitewash their most dirty deeds. For example, in Orwell\u2019s story, the ministry of propaganda was called the Ministry of Truth, just as today the government agency that was once known as \u201cThe Department of War,\u201d is now called the \u201cDepartment of Defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also never-ending war in Orwell\u2019s story, the conditions of which would change on a regular basis, keeping the general population confused about conflicts so they give up on trying to understand what is actually going on. Some of these predictions were merely recognitions of patterns in human history, since the idea of \u201cunpersons\u201d and war propaganda is nothing new. However, Orwell had an incredible understanding of how technology was going to progress over the 20th century, and he was able to envision how technology would be used by those in power to control the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Turns 70 Years Old In A World That Looks A Lot Like The Book This month, George Orwell\u2019s legendary novel Nineteen Eighty-Four turns 70 years old, and the warnings contained within the story are now more relevant than ever. Orwell\u2019s predictions were so spot on that it almost seems like it was used as some […]<\/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":[1212,8126,1211,21716],"class_list":["post-46129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-activist-post","tag-george-orwell","tag-john-vibes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129","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=46129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46130,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46129\/revisions\/46130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}