Originally posted by noticingthemistake
... 1984 is great book, I love that book. It's amazing that he wrote that in 54 and still was so accurate that it was scary. ...

Actually, it was written in 1948. Orwell transposed the 4 and the 8 to get the title.

I agree that it's one of the scariest books out there, because in describing a dysfunctional world, dominated by inaccessible elites that rule by manipulating public opinion, he was eerily prescient in his depiction. And his warnings were not restricted to the Communist threat he illustrated in "Animal Farm". The cynical "doublespeak" of the bureaucrats has surfaced in all of the major democracies as well. :eek: We're all in this leaky boat together.