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Originally Posted by DaiNasty
Agreed. Shades of the 'Ministry of Truth' in Orwell's 1984 to my mind.
How many of us would agree with their version of justice in this brave new world?
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well considering that in "1984" truth and was whatever the government wanted you to believe and very little to do with justice, i do think that comparisons can be drawn.
In 1984 Winston Smith rebelled against a authoritarian society were every action and thought was monitored by the party ,today we have cctv everywhere ,monitoring of peoples Internet ,what they put in rubbish bins,DNA samples taken for the smallest of offences
In Orwell's 1984 Oceania was a super state of England and America ,and since the second world war England and America have had a "special relationship"with some cynics comparing England to the "51st state of the USA" .I personally think the superstate is more comparable to modern Europe were we are governed from Brussels with stupid little rules for everything ,individuals own rights being eroded in the name of human rights for all and these rules being implemented without any consultation from the "proletariat"to use Orwell's phrase
We have "government spin" which could be interpreted as Orwells "Newspeak" the art of telling selected truths to make us believe what they want ,something it has to be said the labour party excell in