Written by: Daniel Julien

The world of 1984 is a terrible place, as we all know.  The government there used technology to control and monitor the people successfully. We understand how terrible the Party’s and Big Brother’s control over society is and we feel that if anything like this were to happen in real life, we would all fight the terrible oppressive government.  There is no way our society would stand for that and conform to the ruthlessness of tyranny.  This is all true, but that is implying that we are aware of the situation.  If we did not know that we are being controlled and watched, how could we fight against it? What if we do live in 1984?
At this moment you would believe there is no way this could be happening, of course, because we are all intellectual beings, it simply couldn’t happen to us.  Maybe we should take a step back…