I am not going to talk about the ingenious writer George Orwell, you can look him up on the Wikipedia if you want to learn something about him. Purpose of this post is to investigate an intriguing analogy to the world today.
At first, let's briefly describe what is 1984 about.
Novel Summary
As the name suggests, its roughly the year 1984. World is split into three great nations - Oceania, Euroasia and Eastasia. These countries wage war against each other and because of this war, there is a major lack of supplies and living level in general is very poor.
Winston Smith, a member of the so called Outer Party in Oceania, takes part in the most dictatorial, unfree and absurd oppresion that you can imagine. Winston himself works at the Ministry of Truth, whose job is to consistently adapt and alter every record of history in order to correct wrong predictions from the past. Our major figure eventually gets fed up, finds a secret love, gets cought, beaten, persuaded and he is shot.
Implications
I am sure that none of you who haven't read the book and also a very few of those who did are unable to realize and comprehend the true horror of the picture described in this novel. Imagine a world where freedom doesn't exist. Your every step is watched, your level of living is horrible, everyone is pushed hard towards Big Brother's propaganda and if you step out of line, you are immediately brought to "Justice" by the feared Ideopolice.
You can't do anything. The world around has gone crazy and if you don't go crazy with them, you shall be punished for it. Only one thing remains - your head, your brain, your thoughts. Would you like to find a boy/girlfriend that you like? Take him/her out for a walk in a sunny day to the forest, make love under the trees, invite your partner to a dinner, just enjoy yourselves?
On a different but not unrelated topic, do you want to choose your proffesion, have the possibility to move freely, spend your money as you like...
To sum up: Do you like freedom?
Well, you'd say that freedom is a common aspect in our lives, so common that we are beginning to forget how it would be if we hadn't it. Let me give you a little heads up:
North Korea is an opposite of freedom.
China still shoots its political opponents.
United States of America passed the Patriot Act.
Women in Islamic countries are denied basic human rights.
Just these four cases include approximately 2,5 billions people.
Every third person on our planet is not as free as he/she should be.
Without freedom, there is no life. I can only suggest to read the novel and realize what's at stake these days. Stand up and call for freedom before it's too late.
