THREE CURRENT PHENOMENA EXPOSING 1984 AS A
NOT JUST SURVEILLANCE
Assessing current conditions in the United States , it would be next to impossible not to grasp innumerable parallels to George Orwell ’ s dystopic portent , 1984 . Though other fictional dystopias could similarly elicit comparisons to the dark turn taken by American empire , aspects of 1984 ’ s creepy authoritarian nightmare ring all-too-true .
By Claire Bernish
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And Big Brother-like surveillance — though undoubtedly relevant — imparts only the most obvious , and therefore least pertinent , connection on the list .
WAR IS PEACE
“ Oceania was at war with Eastasia : Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia ,” Orwell wrote of two of the three remaining nation-states on the planet . Though it analogizes Russia ’ s mercurial relationship with Nazi Germany , the same volatility aptly fits U . S . involvement in the Middle East — where , though propaganda would purport a decisive
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enemy , the truth remains far murkier . A constant state of undeclared but active war rules foreign policy — driven almost exclusively by the war machine ’ s profiteering from plundering of foreign lands ’ natural resources .
Big Oil , Big Pharma , and the multi-faceted defense industry have experienced exponential profits since perpetual war became the de facto basis of foreign
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