“The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the governments invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as ‘thoughtcrimes’. The tyranny is epitomized by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their oppressive rule in the name of a supposed greater good.” 1984. Published by George Orwell in 1949: Doesn’t that sound very much like Barack Obama and his administration, except that Obama is very much real? Read more at :
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