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Why Orwell’s 1984 could be about now
By Jean Seaton - 7 May 2018
The book, with its disorientating first sentence, “It was a bright cold
day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”, defines the peculiar
characteristics of modern tyranny. In 1984 television screens watch you,
and everyone spies on everyone else. Today it is social media that collects
every gesture, purchase, comment we make online, and feeds an omniscient
presence in our lives that can predict our every preference. Modelled on
consumer choices, where the user is the commodity that is being marketed,
the harvesting of those preferences for political campaigns is now distorting
democracy.
But the greatest horror in Orwell’s dystopia is the systematic stripping
of meaning out of language. The regime aims to eradicate words and the
ideas and feelings they embody. Its real enemy is reality. Tyrannies attempt
to make understanding the real world impossible: seeking to replace it with
phantoms and lies.
(Adaptado de: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/
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