Why 1984/Brave new world will never come true

Governments have been evolved and advanced to achieve stunning levels of incompetence that Orwell could hardly have imagined. Sure, we did wind up with wall monitors in our homes, but they display mostly porn and advertisements.

Besides, the entire reason the Orwellian future genre survives is because it scares the crap out of people. It's what gets the ACLU and Libertarians out of bed in the morning. Sure, the president would probablyliketo make himself Lord Protectorate and live in a giant crystal tower, but these days he would have to ask permission of several multinational corporations first.

SO SAYETH SAINTWALRUS

The principles of newspeak seem to be alive and well. Civilizan casualties are now collateral damage, an insurance program you pay into like Social Security is now an entitlement, and fascism now = communism.

Then you've even got people wanting to re-write the past, like the senators in Tennessee who want to remove all mentions of slavery and genocide from American history textbooks. Winston Smith would feel right at home in the TN legislature.

And then there was that post the other day here about those lamposts that can spy on you and tell you sh1t.

Seems pretty close and getting closer if you ask me.

I could see something similar happening in the not to distant future.

1984 has already come true.

are you shytting me?

we live in a world with surveillance cameras on every street, unlimited and totally legal ability to pry into every electronic communication you send and rightspeak. (except we call it political correctness)

Hm, Brave New World...that wouldn't be so bad, they hand out hallucinogens and encourage that you have as much sex as possible.:Pmetroidprime55

Sounds like a good future to me

SO SAYETH SAINTWALRUS

Necrifer

OP is a f*****!

1984 has already come true.

-Sun_Tzu-

this.

and many things in BNW have (somewhat) come true

OP is a f*****!

coolbeans90

Governments have been evolved and advanced to achieve stunning levels of incompetence that Orwell could hardly have imagined. Sure, we did wind up with wall monitors in our homes, but they display mostly porn and advertisements.

Besides, the entire reason the Orwellian future genre survives is because it scares the crap out of people. It's what gets the ACLU and Libertarians out of bed in the morning. Sure, the president would probablyliketo make himself Lord Protectorate and live in a giant crystal tower, but these days he would have to ask permission of several multinational corporations first.

SaintWalrus

It won't ever be that definite, but those stories weren't supposed to be prophesies, With our Attorney General saying things like "Due process and judicial process are not one and the same," the PC and "don't say gay movements, and the way our financial system works though, we're well on our way.

I would agree. Dystopia is Hard.

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OP is a f*****!

Necrifer