I am not surprized at that. I am surprized it took this long.
Lennon may have been nuts but at least he was a pacifist. Lenin was nuts but he wanted good for people too, he just went about it in one really screwed up way.
George Orwell wrote some very cool **** and it was right on time... not 20 years early. The internet was not opened up by accident and it was building up speed in 1984. By the way, take a look at the publishing date of 1984.