What elements predicted in "1984" seem to have come true in our present society?

Question

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Answer 1

The freedom of speech has been taken from us. Although our TVs have not been infiltrated yet, there is blatant surveillance of us. The police can tap your phone without a warrant, The FBI can demand the librarians to show them the books a certain person has borrowed. Torture has been legalized in The US and practiced already. The detaining and execution of political dissidents in the UK and USA is not too far off. It happens in China and has happened in Russia, don't think that your country is immune to Big Brother.

Answer 2

The authoritarian, totalitarian regime where we don't have much to say and are controlled (willingly or unwillingly) by the nation.

You find some analysis here:

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As mentioned in the above review, the book can be found online in WebLiterature's library.

Answer 3

One word: Patriot Act.

Answer 4

All of them, the only difference is that it is in the western "free" world instead of the communist world of the book.

The rooms at the end where you have to face your fear is now called Guantanamo Bay. Two minutes of Hate is just about news programme, and The televisions in the rooms that watch our every move are the internet. The Goldblum/Goldbook (I can't remember) character is Osama Bin Laden (funny how they can't catch him)Newspeak is SMS language as distinct from Oldspeak or the original english. The thought police are ...well.... Ministry of Truth is the government departments that put out spin, and then change it to suit themsleves. The manipulation of statistics.The ridding society of collective memory by eliminating old texts(around page 46, in my book) and thought processes is done through television and the endless array of mind-numbing "popular" shows that glue people to their lounges instead of going out and thinking/learning/participating.

pp45 "Don't you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will no words to express it."