Democracy In George Orwell's A Brave New World

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People are quick to compare our great democratic nation to that of a dystopian, totalitarian novel, due to social or political unrest. This constant desire for a better tomorrow is great for our nation’s growth, however it also leads to irrational conclusions about our extent of freedom. Orwell’s vision of the future is far from relevant in modern American society. Today’s politics are a game of distraction, not destruction, of information. A more paralleled novel, yet still very dramatized, would be A Brave New World. This novel more correctly predicts a world in which society is distracted by overstimulation, transfixed with entertainment news and glorification of celebrities, dissolving their interest in truth and importance.
There are, however, a few parallels between the novel 1984, and the world in 2017. Orwell’s ideas of ‘doublethink’ are present in today’s America. For example, society is contradictorily in agreeance and protest of …show more content…
These exist and remain in place throughout the nation- phone call recordings, fabrication of information, and, most importantly, criminal charges against those who expose that information. Much like the novel itself, privacy is only an idea, not a reality. Facts are in control of those who hold them, no one else. One of the dogmas of ‘Big Brother’ states, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” This statement sounds like one from a modern politician’s diary. Political censorship has always been central to America. From the Watergate scandal, to Trump’s alleged tax evasion and Clinton’s deleted e-mails, there is no politics without evasion and censorship of some
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