George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell didn’t realize that we would all welcome Big Brother watching us constantly; only we would call him I-phone, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and security camera.
 
JimG said:
Orwell didn’t realize that we would all welcome Big Brother watching us constantly; only we would call him I-phone, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and security camera.
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Yes, and in the post-9/11 environment Orwell’s point seems almost moot. In other words, most people seem to be fine with the government spying on them if it done with a view to catching would-be terrorists.
 
tomarin said:
Yes, and in the post-9/11 environment Orwell’s point seems almost moot. In other words, most people seem to be fine with the government spying on them if it done with a view to catching would-be terrorists.
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Except, it’s not just government. Private companies are also monitoring and collecting data. Some private companies provide skip tracing services to private detectives, bail bondsmen, and re-possessors using social media and technologies like license plate recognition from surveillance cameras in public areas.
 
As concerning as the loss of privacy is, what troubles me even more is the de facto advent of Thought Police, compliments of the Political Correctness movement and the ever-present media.
 
Orwell was an interesting socialist - he opposed Soviet communism, based on what he saw while in the Spanish Civil War.

Although apparently an agnostic, he wasn’t opposed to religion and had his kids baptized.

He was fiercely opposed to abortion, one of the major plot points of his semi-comic novel “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
As concerning as the loss of privacy is, what troubles me even more is the de facto advent of Thought Police, compliments of the Political Correctness movement and the ever-present media.
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You make it sound like it just involuntarily creeps upon us? I would have to disagree.

I would have to say; it’s a devil we embrace…even if it starts with some reluctance. Hence, I remember when I first discover CNN at their start. My first thought was - Cool! I can watch the news any time I want regardless of the time of day. However, this platform open the door for all other content to be aired around the clock. Now-a-days, we are just inundated with too much content on too many channels all the time. Cell phones do the same thing, I don’t think anyone is that important that needs to be in communication around the clock? Besides, it has just thrown good etiquette out the window.
 
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