This 1984 bullshit needs to stop somewhere... 1984 has always represented an information starved State like North Korea rather than a degenerate information saturated world of perpetual stimuli like the modern west relative Huxley's Brave New World. The illiterate masses parrot 1984 while ignoring the essential character of the society it represents. Media deception, the use of language to shape thought and thus behavior, and surveillance are concepts that transcend one otherwise inapplicable novel. Be literate.