Monday, October 29, 2007

Victory Post

I just finished George Orwell's classic book "1984", and it totally blew me away. It's reputation is well deserved, it's up there with the best of them. It will forever be part of me, and every time someone mentions more surveillance or uses newspeech terms such as "Freedom Fries" or "Surgical Strike", I will think of the Winston Smith and resist. It's themes on surveillance and totalitarian rule are extremely relevant topics in our age, when governments uses fear of terror to pass laws that violates personal freedom, such as our own government, who will thankfully soon be overthrown. I recommend it to everyone, one of the scariest and most important books I've ever read.

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