WATCHING YOU
When I read 1984 in high school I thought, “This is what the Commies are doing in the Soviet Union.” When I read 1984 in college I thought, “This is what ‘The Man’ is doing in AmeriKKKa.” But when I read it as a mature (that is to say, old and worried) adult I was shocked. I realized, “This is what we’re doing to ourselves !”
In 1984 , Winston Smith can’t turn off the spying, intrusive telescreen. Our situation is much worse. Winston had only one telescreen. We have dozens of the things – desktops, laptops, iPads, iPhones, game consoles. And we, of our own free will, refuse to turn them off. We don’t live in Winston Smith’s horrible world – yet. But we seem to be doing
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