FREE ESSAY ON UTOPIA BY MORE - BIG BROTHER

UTOPIA BY MORE - BIG BROTHER

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Is Big Brother Watching you?
"Those who would trade their liberties for a little safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety". That quote by Benjamin Franklin described mindset that leads to totalitarian
government. The British novelist, George Orwell is known for his chilling governmental
satire. Animal Farm, his other well-known novel is a look into the past, his novel 1984
was a eerie prophecy into the not so distant future. This view of a negative Utopia has
become so well known that people who believe in his theory are called Orwellian. But do
we exist in a manner similar to the prophecy of the world in which he claimed to be what
life would be like in 1984? The answer is No, but in just a few years we could.
Ironically one of the greatest differences in our society and the society of Orwell, is
that in 1984, the gene which leads to sex has been suppressed. For In our society
promiscuity and suggestiveness have gotten maybe not more common but certainly more
public. When Orwell published 1984, this seemed to be a logical conclusion that such an
event might happen. For in the Post- World War II, generation sex was expressly hidden.
For example on television the Rock musician Elvis Presley was not shown below the hips
because it was considered far too suggestive. In this aspect Our Society more resembles
the other most famous novel of a negative utopia, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
However we do share some similarities. Part of the power base in 1984 has its power
exclusively through the deception of the people. Winston for example accepts the "fact"
that two plus two does in fact equal five. As we know, two plus two equals four. The most
important way in which we can prevent turnining into an Orwellian society is to not be
able to be misled. To prevent the society of which we live from becoming Orwellian we
must stave off apathy. For it is a slippery slope and if we take the first step down it
we could live in an Orwellian totalitarian state.
Closing, we do not as of today live in the society, which Orwell predicted. We still
maintain a level of personal freedom in the United States greater than that described in
1984. However other nations of this world, the Peoples Republic of China comes to mind,
where they live in a semi-Orwellian world. Even though we tend to say "it can't happen
here", it can. That's what they would have said in Germany in the twenties or Russia in
the Pre-World War One era. It can happen here and it shall if we do not remember the
lesson of the American President Thomas Jefferson "The Price of liberty is Eternal
Vigilance".