Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of those classic stories whose influence is so widespread in common culture that it's impossible to deny. The kind of influence that has not wavered since George Orwell completed it in 1948, because we all knew that one kid in high school english who couldn't stop quoting "Big Brother is Watching You!"
No?
Anyway, Orwell's indelible mark on the English canon was a commentary on the dangers of fascist and totalitarian regimes. The 1984 he envisioned followed WWII and nuclear war, seeing the world divided up into three superstates. Oceania, where protagonist Winston Smith lives, is at perpetual war with these other states, and he finds himself rebelling in heart and mind before he is finally given up to the Thought Police and forced to follow the Party line.
It's now twenty six years after Nineteen Eighty-Four was supposed to happen, and it's easy to point out that we are not living in an Orwellian world police state.
We are not living in an Orwellian world police state.
By the way, while seeing parallels between "netspeak" and Newspeak is nothing new, it's kind of fun deconstructing the ramifications of saying LOL in real life. In a scary way.
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