I love how totally ridiculous utopia is because it allows me to think about how we live in modern day society. Some concepts, even in 1949, are still present today.
For example... The vulnerability of children. In 2015, each upcoming generation is called "the future". We are the future of world as we know it. We are the new opportunity to change the world as we know it today. We are the next chance to create a lasting effect. This is so easily seen in 1984. Even though this part had been described rather quickly in the book, it stood out to me. On page --, adults over thirty were often afraid of their own children!!! Why? The intelligent people of Airstrip One understand that children are vulnerable at these younger ages. You can easily instill flawed values and ideals when they're young and make them more powerful than they even realize. So many of the children of this society simply adore Big Brother and all the malevolent ministries and leaders associated with him. By making the actions of the government appeal to hold ten at these younger ages, you essentially create a military of children, figuratively speaking. Allowing this new generation of brainwashed minors have the power that they don't understand that they have keeps everything in this area steady. Parents now really have to watch every single thing they say, do and even think because now Big Brother is watching you through your own children! It's incredibly smart but alarmingly unsettling, so you basically can't live your life or have a brain and think for yourself. You need not think for yourself.... Big Brother does it for you!!!
Here's another problem... Winston's uncontrollable thoughts of rebellion against Big Brother. This is blatantly obvious but it needs to be addressed. His spontaneous writings in his diary that basically make him look like a Eurasian spy and they're unctrollable flow of negativity as they flood the page is scary. Where are these thoughts coming from? Why does he have them? Why is he recording them??? Winston doesn't even have an answer to these questions! I feel like this is definitely going to cause some issues in the future, especially since he works FOR THE PARTY. That is extremely dangerous. If he isn't careful, the Parsons children are going to be begging their mother to see Winston's shameful hanging instead!!
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