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This 5 page paper suggests that Orwell's infamous work was about fears of Nazism and totalitarian leadership as opposed to an invasion of privacy. Examples are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the analogy many use when criticizing cameras in the classroom and on the street. It is well, "Orwellian" they say. Such criticisms are lodged against the society based on
Orwells work of science fiction. But it is important to realize that Orwell wrote the piece in 1934, when 1984 seemed a long way off ("Privacy" PG).The book essentially portrayed
a totalitarian state where Big Brother was in charge of practically everything (PG). While in a sense the society has been heading in that direction, another consequence of video cameras,
perhaps never thought of by Orwell has surfaced. The average person has video cameras which in fact have been used against the government. The Rodney King case is just one
example where ordinary citizens have gone against police. Today, organizations like the US Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been fighting against the monolithic state and large corporations, along with
any other entity that threatens individual privacy ("Privacy" PG). It is true that along with new freedoms encouraged by this new digital age comes quite a bit of intrusions. Some
of them are welcome as people put themselves online, on purpose, for everyone to see. Others fear that their keystrokes, particularly those which go directly to their banking institutions, will
be infiltrated by hackers. In some ways the tables have turned. 1998 is not 1984. Rather, it is a topsy turvy world where the thesis of 1984 was all wrong.
It was backwards. Rather than the government taking over the people through technology, the people have essentially been holding the government hostage by creating a monster internet, known as the
"Internet," that no government has been able to regulate thus far. Yet, when Orwell wrote his piece he was not necessarily talking about privacy. While the topic was an unintended
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