Big Brother Still Lives: Orwell’s 1984 in the Age of Surveillance and Spin

Big Brother Still Lives: Orwell’s 1984 in the Age of Surveillance and Spin

1984 is not a warning from the past. It is a confrontation with the present.

When George Orwell published 1984, he envisioned a future where tyranny would not arrive with the crash of jackboots alone, but through the quiet erasure of truth. Seventy-five years later, his vision has not dimmed—it has, in many ways, become eerily familiar. If 1984 once read like dystopian prophecy, today it reads like a mirror. The novel, set in the imagined totalitarian state of Oceania, follows Winston Smith, a low-ranking Party member who dares to question the regime of Big Brother. Oceania is a world where every word is monitored, every memory is suspect, and even thoughts can be criminal….

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