1984 and Us
When writing his novels, little did George Orwell know that the world of his fictitious masterpiece 1984 could ever come true. The continued acts of espionage on private citizens by ever increasingly rapacious governments is hurdling mankind to the almost ethereal permanence of George Orwell's world of 1984. The Obama administration has in itself become a central driving force to the cognizance of 1984. There are three major driving forces that lead to the full realization. The first driving force, is perpetual war. Many wars have been fought in the last several years against not countries, but organizations. A second is continuous propaganda. Through major news outlets and White House press releases, we have always been told that we need to kill tribal villagers to secure our freedoms. The final and most sweeping force is the perversion of the rights of not only American citizens, but the basic rights of all humans.
Incessant war. The first ingredient to the unfathomable dystopia of Oceania. In Orwell's 1984 there are three major world powers, Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia. The three are always locked in a never-ending conflict with one another over minor strips of land between them[1]. The goal of these wars is not publicly known but to the governments, they are a way of controlling public opinion. Whether they're at war with Eurasia or Eastasia the hidden agenda of the government is to use the threat of invasion by a foe to keep citizens in line and patriotic. In the US government, including the Obama administration, many war and conflicts have been fought that many Americans believe we should not have been a part of, including; the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation 'New Dawn', Operation Active Endeavor, and most famously the 'War on Terror'. Each of these conflicts had their public reasons for being started, but most have been drawn out beyond what they should have been, in the name of “regional...