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This month, George Orwell's "1984" turns 60. And, as has been the case ever since 1984, each year there are those who examine how close to Orwell's vision our society has become.
The latest I've seen is this:
Read the story: Sixty Years After 1984
Ms. Young makes some good points -- including one that is more alluded to rather than stated: how the way we tend to misuse "1984," tossing about words like "Orwellian" and comparing anything we dislike or fear as examples of the encroachment of "Big Brother," is just another way that the false comforts of "doublethink" and "newspeak" have taken over our lives.
We can recognize and, one hopes, avoid the big bad things in "1984" -- the totalitarianism, the torture, the systematic oppression.
But the lies we tell ourselves, the myriad minor deceits we practice on ourselves and on others -- those legacies of "1984" we may never erase.
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