Even today, if you read 1984 a novel by famous British author George Orwell on the subject of how dictatorship dominates human thought, a wave of fear runs through your body.
The first thing that makes this novel terrifying is that Orwell's map of the authoritarian rule seems faithful to us in today's world. For example, Double Think, the Thought Police, the Ministry of Love (or Ministry of Love, which is meant to hurt people) and the Ministry of Peace, or the Ministry of Peace (which is actually waging a war), and then a novel-writing agency. that instead of writing about real topics to win people's sympathy, he posts pornographic material in droves to distract people.
Because authoritarian governments use all of these elements to protect people's minds, after reading all of this in George Orwell's novels, our eyes are wide open.
But today we can read '1984' with a new look, but even after reading it with a new look, there is a tingling sensation in our body. Is the path the world is taking today the same path that Orwell called "the road to hell"? We don't know if O'Rourke's mapping was an inspiring prediction, but it wouldn't be wrong to say that the conditions Orwell mention in his novels embarrass you, but it's undeniable. Can this mapping help us?
Published on June 8, 1949, this book is written in the context of the devastation of World War II, when Europe was completely devastated. The British nation was mired in hunger and poverty, and the future looked bleak. But it seems that the novel is written about the current situation and the beauty of Orwell is that it also teaches how to deal with the situations that are presented in the novel. What will be the characteristics of dictatorship and oppression in modern times? "It was a cold, sunny day in April, and the clock struck at 1 pm," Orwell wrote.
The novel's protagonist, Winston Smith, is in charge of censoring the content of the Ministry of Truth and presenting the story as a whole so that you don't feel bad about the current situation and understand that everything is going on as usual. Winston Smith and his colleagues are always in the grip of 'Big Brother' or 'Brother' and these people are in the grip of Big Brother because they don't just watch you with the help of a moving television screen. They all spy on each other.
Today, it has been replaced by social media, which aggregates every move, purchase, and opinion we express online. In this way, social media anticipates all of our online movements and priorities in the future. In social media transactions, consumers are not considered consumers but have become the product itself. Using consumer preference data on the Internet, new movements can be measured by increasing their preferred political movement in society, distorting forms of democracy. Orwell is well aware that oppressive governments always need enemies. In his novel, he shows how new emotions can be created at will through advertisements that use a public sentiment. However, Orwell's description of "two minutes of hate" in 1984 also predicted how different groups would work online. All the characters in the novel have a responsibility to watch violent movies. Then Winston Smith said, referring to 'two minutes of hate, that 'the bad thing about two minutes of hate is not that you have to play a role in them, but that the worst is that you have to play a role. It is impossible to get rid of it. In this way, the fear and spirit of vicious revenge of the other flows like an electric current through the body of each member of the group and you are ready to kill your opponent, torture him and break his mouth.
Today, political, religious, and business organizations, all kinds of groups are exchanging these feelings, inciting their feelings and emotions. Orwell also surprisingly predicts the trend in how people are willing to join this hate movement. Winston Smith also felt this change in him.
Big brother.
It was around 1984, not to
mention the dictator Orwell called Big Brother or Bhai Sahib. Yes, this all
sounds pretty bad to me, it seems that BT is not for me either. It should be
noted that in the background of this Orwell novel, there is a battle between
the world's great systems or 'Izm' that distort the shape of the 20th century. George
Orwell himself volunteered to fight with the anti-dictatorship forces against
fascism in the Spanish Civil War, but when he joined the anti-Stalin faction
and fought, he fought with the pro-Stalin faction. Because of this, Orwell felt
that the slogan of communism was also empty.
Orwell saw with his own eyes
the self-deception of those who believed in the new system. Today we are faced
with several new types of systems or 'isms', such as nationalism or nationalism
and populism. Today, the promotion of this system causes very dangerous
emotions in people. Wherever you look today, waves of protectionist sentiment
are flowing. One thing all of these powerful people have in common is that they
promote their own caste by heavily suppressing the voices against them. In
other words, Big Brother is no longer a joke, but a trend that is becoming the
norm around the world.
Two plus two is equal to five.
The most dangerous thing that Orwell describes in his novels is ripping the meaning out of language or words. The objective of the protagonist of this novel is to destroy the true meaning of words, thoughts, and feelings, so that reality becomes the true enemy of these people.
In 1984, the ruling party also changed history for its own purposes. The system of oppression seeks to make it impossible for people to know the real world and instead seeks to promote fear and lies. Winston Smith took his first steps against this system when he began to keep a journal, protecting himself from the prying eyes of cameras everywhere, in which he spoke of his inner world. Smith knew that if the authorities discovered his actions, he would be sentenced to death. And then when he was forced to tell the truth after being hit hard, he said yes, 'two plus two equals five. I can. The violence that erupted in 1984 destroyed his own identity or soul, as well as his ability to recognize the real world. In Orwell's novels, you see how difficult it is to get things back on track. This story tells us that when words are taken away from you, people are speechless and replace them with ideas that have no head or legs. This novel by George Orwell is banned in all countries where dictatorships reign, but even there this world book reaches the world by secret routes. Not only that, even the strongest democracy in the world experienced an increase in sales of this novel. People in India, Britain, China, and Poland are again referring to 1984. People in the United States are reading novels to understand the reality of the Trump administration, and sales there are also increasing. To understand 1984, you must also understand the personality of the author.
Obviously, George Orwell cannot be separated from his novels. More and more people are beginning to think of Orwell as a saint and an old man, but he must be laughing at his statues. Feminist activists, like anti-meat groups, have never agreed with Orwell's views. But it wouldn't be wrong to say that no matter what ideas Orwell had followed these principles in his life. Over time he got really poor, he fought for what he thought was right, he never found a mistake in the work of other writers, and he was always nice to them. Despite all that, he does not see the world as it is, but as the world he likes. Orwell's ideas have not only changed our minds to understand the oppression of the times we live in today, but today 1984 has become a booklet or guide that you can use in difficult times. I want to have Knowledge is actually a kind of power and it is a test of our strength today.
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