Thank you. And, yes.

Yeah. I was told, face to face, by an nsa snoop that they can turn our phones on when we turn them off to listen to us. I actually appreciated that from him. Living in surreal times...

Am enjoying this book. The parallels to today are so blaringly obvious and firm that it is almost immaterial to the story for me...haha. I'm enjoying the writing style, the love story.

His early stuff was good (Fight Club, Survivor, Haunted, etc.) but his newer stuff, in my opinion, is very strange.

I like how in 1984 there is so much key information put out that's simply fabrication. One that jumped out at me was about the state-run Lotto. He describes three Proles really having a heated argument about which numbers are more likely to be winners...how their minds, though seemingly feeble, could grasp the most useless facets of the Lotto. And...he states that many of the declared winners are people who don't even exist. That instantly got me wondering about our Lotto...

My author friend raves about his writings.

Hello Abaco,
It is an essential read, IMHO.
'War is peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is strength." 1984, Orwell

Respectfully,
O.A.

Sure. And, the Samsung brand of tv, from what I understand, is designed specifically to listen to you (and is probably used for that).

Propaganda is Truth; Wealth is Theft; Government Control is Freedom; Aggression is Liberation.

The monitoring TV exists. They are computers with cameras that can be turned on remotely, and that can be hacked into without your knowledge. They exist as smartphones that make you traceable anywhere on earth.

I did a search using DuckDuckGo (instead of Google) but now ads pop up for apartments in Dublin on many of the pages I visit. DuckDuckGo says it doesn't track you - if only that were true. I wonder what would happen if I did a search for something dangerous?

About 1/3 through the book now. I got some good reading time in yesterday by the pool.

I think we are well into the dystopian setting described in the book. I fully expect some people I know to be "vaporized" sooner than later... I think America is getting very close to that.

But, by then, Fahrenheit 451 will have long kicked in, and old weathered and lost copies of all of these tomes - 1984, Animal Farm, Atlas Shrugged, Fahrenheit 451 will be rare underground contraband.

I'm getting old. just turned 50...I clearly remember aspects of the story buy can't recall if I read it. I now I owned it, I remember the cover. What a drag it is getting old.

2+2=4!

They will cleanse it like they have Mark Twain. Worse, it will be honored as foreseeing the great future they have built.

The Brazil Olympics is definitely a parody.

It's called a cell phone.

Reeducation camps already are in full swing. We call them universities and at work there are diversity classes along with the rest of the corporate effort to protect themselves from the lawyers.

I just finished reading it a month or so ago for the first time. Many similarities to today's surveillance state. Enjoy, I think, or weep like Paul, maybe.

I wonder what will people will say if they read it 100 years from now? On our present course, it might be a reality.

When Orwell, in 1948 turned the last two digits around and created 1984, it was a look down the road at what socialism not only can become, but must become Socialism can only lead to a lack of freedom and as a result, a lack of everything else. In order to maintain such a society, it becomes inevitable that the world becomes what he presents. He used the Soviet model, not realizing that a more powerful form of collectivism was about to arise, based on a government in the form of a religion, utilizing the poor, uneducated, and psychologically sick of the world. The illustration of how this happens is put forth clearly in Orwell's other masterpiece, "Animal Farm." It illustrates the change from a just revolution into an unjust governance.

DrZ.. I'm borrowing your words, sending them to my sister and couple of others who have not read 1984 to encourage them to do so. WELL PUT!!

We are living in a different form of the 1984 police state. Google, Facebook, Apple, and other silicon valley corporations are keeping tabs on everything you do, and sharing it with the NSA, so the government doesn't need the monitoring TV.

The MSM changes history constantly, by ignoring news that shows progressive policy failures, and exaggerating any information that favors a big state solution. Negatives about the founders of our country are emphasized, while their character is assassinated.

State reeducation camps are just a breath away, with calls to criminalize "climate change denial." If Clinton becomes President, and succeeds to pack the federal courts, expect to see a new version of the John Adams Sedition act passed into law, affirmed by the SCOTUS as constitutional. Criticism of the government or its officials will become a federal crime.

2024, not so different from Orwell's 1984.