Much of what Orwell proffered as dystopic fiction
has since manifested — perhaps not so much, as is
popularly believed, because the government took the
novel as an instruction manual. But because 1984’s
dire warning seems so inconceivable, perhaps most
people have yet to realize its darker portents have
already come to pass.
It is up to us to plant the seeds of knowledge which
will inevitably grow into that well-informed populace who will then see the reality of the horrid path
on which we’ve since embarked. Tis the nature of
humanity to err, but we’ve managed to be resilient
nonetheless — sometimes the hardest path is the
only way there.
Protagonist Winston Smith ultimately succumbs to
the lure of Big Brother and the State — but it remains
up for debate whether the authoritarian nightmare
will take as firm a chokehold on the United States.
[Editor’s note: To find out more, click here to see the New Earth
Symposium, “Big Brother Out of Control.”]
To resist such a reality is the work of a true protagonist
— not through violence or destruction, but through
seeking a lesser ignorance. The lynchpin to Orwell’s
dystopia, and to the current one, is the perception of
ignorance as strength. War is most certainly not Peace
to a well-informed populace, nor is Freedom Slavery.
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