Quote: (08-09-2017 03:38 AM)Robert High Hawk Wrote:
Quote: (08-09-2017 03:25 AM)speculator Wrote:
The reason that 1984 is so widely read and discussed is to make masses familiar and, in fact, ready for such a scenario. Movies, books, and other forms of art and entertainment are used to introduce new ideas to masses. This is done to weaken the defense shield called unfamiliarity. When something is unfamiliar, you instinctively resist or are suspicious of it. By reading a book like 1984, your brain becomes ready for such a scenario and won't resist it too much. All of us see elements of 1984 around us but none will do anything because we have been prepared to feel the boot on our faces.
Interesting theory. Do you think though, that this is what George Orwell intended by this novel, or just an unintended consequence of it's popularity?
I can envisage a scenario whereby Orwell was part of the "in crowd" & thus he himself was privy to or exposed to ideas that were rather creative from the public's perspective back in 1948.
After-all; two way televisions?
One way television & video camera was in it's infancy from the public's perspective back in 1948, yet Orwell was entirely creative enough to envisage such technology as part of a mass surveillance state?
OK...