Posted by litewheel on February 19, 2003 at 21:36:42:
In Reply to: Re: in what way is the book 1984 still actual? posted by just me on February 04, 2003 at 13:06:22:
I'm sorry to have to inform you that you're question 'what's current' comes late. For I believe Orwell had titled the manuscript 1948, believeing that the totalitarian mechanisms were already in place for turning lies into truths. But if we turn to page one we find, yes, Big Brother is Watching You. And as one of the other followuppers points out, many businesses have surveillance cameras trained on us as soon as we light on 'their' sidewalks. Take the book a page at a time, that's my recommendation, for no one wants to steal from you the actual pleasure of cultivating a clear-thinking, fully realized cognative apparatus (brain, soul, call it whatever). One tip: go slowly. Perhaps this information age has you squeezing the book for meaning as if it were a ketchup bottle. Good books are never over and done with, say, like meals, but rather continually ask to be considered again. If you think 1984 is a brainfull wait till you get to Hamlet. Good luck.