At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future - now it's 40 years in the past. Yet our present feels more than ever like Orwell's dystopia.
Surveillance is inescapable: Every screen watches the people who watch it. Even thinking the wrong thoughts is a crime, though the authorities do everything in their power to prevent thoughtcrime before it happens by mutilating language itself.
The Soviet Union is long gone, yet much of what Orwell feared is coming to pass in the free world today, not under a totalitarian dictatorship but through the pervasive power of politically correct ideology.
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