For now call it a Progressive work in progress;.

The image that stuck with me was the daily rewriting of history and changing former enemies into allies. That is exactly what is happening in DC. The part about the TV watching us, the technology is here. I read the book first when I was abotu a junior in high school, then I made sure my daughter read "Anthem", "a984" and "Brave new World" - the latter of which is exactly what the big pharma companies are doing to people now, with happy pills. We had all the warning we needed, but society quit reaing.

1984 (book and movies) and Brazil (movie) are just awesome parodies of socialism's failures.

This is one of my favorite books. I skipped the class that the rest of my classmates read it in, but I went back independently to read it. I completed it in a day, more or less, absorbed and thrilled by a sick fascination of "how could this happen?" It's easy enough to look at the TV (which we can still turn off for now) and see.

Though it comes in the novel to make eminent sense, I think I'd change the Big Brother mantra from War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, to something else for our time. Perhaps: War is Security, Dependency is Freedom, Ignorance (or Acceptance, or Submission) is Peace. Other ideas, anyone?

In 1984 everyone has a TV. the only difference is that it watches you. Sound familiar? The use of the memory hole is rampant in today's government. Obama and Hillary are especially adept at its use. The "Ministry of Truth" is with us today in the form of the so called "Main Stream Media". It is the official propaganda arm of the liberal-progressive movement.

Great book. What's interesting is in the book they can't turn off the TV/screens. They're under near constant surveillance without any choice in the matter.

In a book by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club), he writes "Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed." He also writes something along the lines that we'll invite "Big Brother" in; the surveillance won't be by force.

Which seems pretty accurate....

The book is great, and so is the movie adaptation. IMHO

We are just about there. Sculpting intel reports to make things look better, a justice department that isn't, a political class that is about keeping it's power rather than serving the citizens and a President that has a pen and a phone and uses them and a Congress that has all but abdicated its share of government.
The real driver is the almost complete adoption of Saul Alinsky's tactics and philosophy by the Democrats and some of the Republicans.
We are about one election away.
(And don't forget the NSA and their databases_

I have heard that Eric Blair (real name) had a bit of an anti-human bent. After I finish the book I want to research him a bit. A theory I heard was that he wrote the book as a way to flaunt the future in people's faces like a sick joke.

The hardest thing to predict about the future is timing. 1984 was right about all except how long it would take to get there.