Cori-Beth's Books

What important novel or novels should everyone read at least once in their life time? One book that sticks out in my mind is 1984 by George Orwell. We are living 1984 right now, and not for the reasons everyone seems to be posting about on social media. Have they actually read the book to understand it? Or twisting it to fit their own politics?

Within the novel, there are people who are rewriting and erasing history by literally erasing anything that is against the agenda of the government, to control people. Even going as far as murdering people and anything written about them who speak out against said agenda so that they are wiped from existence. Now, what they government is saying to the citizens is true, it fits the narrative. They are the good guys and the men or women that are murdered were the bad guys and you don't have to ever think or hear or read about them ever again.

The Thought Police in the book tell people how to think, how to speak, how to believe, what to read, etc. You cannot think, or say, or believe, or feel, or read how you want. Imagine that. They are destroying any written material, including books, novels, that is different that the governments agenda, that speaks against the government and Big Brother. I mean, how dare people think or speak or believe or feel or read what they want. Where is freedom in that? Sound familiar? They have been told that war is good, it means peace. So they are constantly at war because they have been brainwashed to see it as peace, the opposite. Not war BRINGS peace, but war IS peace.

Does Big Brother, a single person, actually exist? Or is he some made up figurehead that people bow down and worship? Oh, speak against Big Brother, you are hauled off, there is an attempted re-programming, but you are murdered anyway. Control, that is what those in charge want. And submission. You can't think how you want to think. And if you do, again, hauled off. If someone, including your neighbour, suspects you are thinking "impure thoughts," even if you aren't and never have, you are still hauled off. You are a problem to the system. Everyone is suspicious of everyone and you are suspicious of everyone. Paranoia.

Brainwashing. Control. Two major themes within this book. Destroy the evidence that any other way is different. Rewrite history. Ban books. Ironic considering that 1984 has been at one time or another has been a banned book.

Think about this next time you want books banned, that it could be like this. It starts with not allowing people to think or believe how they want to, by banning books. The Thought Police could take away books that you have loved since childhood. Dr. Suess for example. Horton Hears a Who. Oh no! That's not natural. A talking elephant? Tiny people living on a flower! Book banned! The Cat in the Hat. Oh no! A crazy, talking cat wearing a hat is causing chaos! Book banned! And the list goes on. Don't like the book. Don't read it. But don't prevent someone else from not reading it to expand their knowledge and mind. They might learn something, and that would be a shame, right?

Don't look now, but Big Brother is watching. How's your math? 2+2=5, right?