Its hands down one of my favorite books. Very relevant in the political/technological world we live in these days.

Great Book, isnt it?

Makes me think of this book by Dr. Tim Snyder, one of the globes leading Historians on the Rise of Fascism.
Quick read, but well worth it.
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Economic misery leads people to make the wrong decisions to improve their situation. And creates a blame game. That's 20th Century Fascism in a nutshell.

I remember reading it when I was a teenager and thinking, "I'm so glad this is just a book of a fictional future never to happen in real life."

1984 was an excellent movie too. A lot of things in 1984 are mirrored in the world today. To name a couple; Google shares a lot of the mechanisms used by Big Brother and the revised news and daily hate can be seen in a lot of our media and "news" programs.

Humans will give up privacy for convenience.

Doors and windows are inconvenient. Let’s just get rid of them and open our homes to the world.

It's called Instagram, Twitter, internet searches, gps, shopping data, cable and internet data. Your home and world are public, like it or not.

Whether people wish to believe it or not, from one of the best in the business, we must all assume our lives and info are all compromised and out there in places we dont want.

I am reading the book in small doses to my 9 y/o boy. Kudos to you for revisiting.

Now, if you haven’t done so, read up on China’s Social Credit System. They are far ahead of the US is making 1984 a reality.

Ever seen their version of Palantir? They can identify you via facial recognition on the city's CCTV cameras and a whole plethora of info pops up.

If you've got nothing to hide you've... a) had a very boring life, and/or b) lack imagination as to BB's consequences.

Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.

We live in a time where kids welcome the government to run their lives. Think about this, Apple products. Apple tells you what you can and can't do, what you can and cannot use with their products. Android allows you to do and use whatever you want. Kids live off their phones and have been conditioned that everyone knows what's best for them. We have a new generation of easily manipulated digital zombies. They are perfectly willing to give up freedom for an ounce of security. They're too lazy to do their own research and retweet or repost everything they read without a second thought. This.... is..... our.... future.

An argument kids make these days is "well if I'm not doing anything wrong I don't care if the government tracks what I do". What happens to when the government changes what's considered right and wrong. Just remember IBM helped create the primitive technology Hitler used to initiate the holocaust. Just imagine what an evil person with power could do these days....

Ever heard of China's social credit score system? Brought to you by Google. 1984 is already here.

Already here. People are already being deplatformed for bad think.