How far away is the world from 1984?

[hypothetical fact]

I feel like anti-terrorism is just a metaphor for control, so what is stopping complete anti-terrorist measures from keeping the peace?
Inspired by this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/

 

[meatloaf231]

About 24 years

I couldn't really say. I mean, I don't like being speculative, but I do feel like we are dancing a dangerous dance.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I'd say we were twenty four years from 1884, going on twenty five.
But seriously western society is swiftly going to become the 24/7 monitered society.

 

[Hevoo]

Since September 11, 2001


A avg person is filmed 15 times a day. I think the idea of 1984 is here today.

 

[Bagaloo]

I absolutely loved that book.
And I absolutely hate that slowly but surely, you can see it coming to life.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Eh, I think we're much closer to Brave New World personally. You can control a society through pleasure much more easily than you can with fear. Just get everyone hooked on mindless consumerism and popping pills and they'll be delightfully easy to control.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well, Super Mario Bros was considered a leap in gaming technology in '85. Now, just sit on that.

 

[Codeman90]

Hey cheer up, in about 10-11 years we should have flying cars!! (It's in the movie Bladerunner which takes place a decade from now, so it must be true!)

In all honesty though, I'm not sure. I'm not going to start blowing the whistle until we get Chinese internet censors and other garbage like that.

 

[Caliostro]

I'd say about tw-...

About 24 years

...God dammit you beat me to it.

 

[Good morning blues]

Eh, I think we're much closer to Brave New World personally. You can control a society through pleasure much more easily than you can with fear. Just get everyone hooked on mindless consumerism and popping pills and they'll be delightfully easy to control.

We live in a world controlled by both. Orwell was only half-right in the sense that the structures controlling people aren't governments nearly as much as they're corporations.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Eh, I think we're much closer to Brave New World personally. You can control a society through pleasure much more easily than you can with fear. Just get everyone hooked on mindless consumerism and popping pills and they'll be delightfully easy to control.

We live in a world controlled by both. Orwell was only half-right in the sense that the structures controlling people aren't governments nearly as much as they're corporations.

I suppose that puts us with Snow Crash then. On with the United States of Google!

 

[PersianLlama]

Eh, I think we're much closer to Brave New World personally. You can control a society through pleasure much more easily than you can with fear. Just get everyone hooked on mindless consumerism and popping pills and they'll be delightfully easy to control.

Yeah, I think we are too, but there are still some things that I could see happening from 1984. Especially sexually, Brave New World = Sex is too good, 1984 = Sex is horrifyingly bad.

 

[Spacelord]

About 24 years

I couldn't really say. I mean, I don't like being speculative, but I do feel like we are dancing a dangerous dance.

I bet you've never gone to a NYHC concert.

 

[ElephantGuts]

I'd say about tw-...

About 24 years

...God dammit you beat me to it.

I was gonna say that as well. But I think we're comfortably far away from 1984. And getting farther every year!
Heh...

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Farther than you think - the same reason why Gestapo failed. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZiddagVU2o]

 

[Jaythulhu]

Well, the doomsday clock has been set to 11:55pm, hasn't it? I'd say we're already well into at least the 10th chapter of the book, perhaps further.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Since September 11, 2001


A avg person is filmed 15 times a day. I think the idea of 1984 is here today.

I'm Only filmed a few minutes every week or so. Don't want to be filmed? Move to a smal town.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Eh, I think we're much closer to Brave New World personally. You can control a society through pleasure much more easily than you can with fear. Just get everyone hooked on mindless consumerism and popping pills and they'll be delightfully easy to control.

We live in a world controlled by both. Orwell was only half-right in the sense that the structures controlling people aren't governments nearly as much as they're corporations.

Yes, but the Corporations control the government!

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Well, the doomsday clock has been set to 11:55pm, hasn't it? I'd say we're already well into at least the 10th chapter of the book, perhaps further.

The clock has been moved closer than that before. It has been set to 3 minutes to midnight, I believe during the Cuban missle crisis