For discussion
- systems of control such as the Internet, the social networks (privacy is invaded)
- telephone and video surveillance
- digital store and availability of personal information
- state of permanent war
- demonisation of those perceived as other or foreign to the consensus culture
- government and big business control of mass media
- fake news
- increase in the use of Doublethink (humanitarian war, flexible labour, collateral damage)
- privatisation of public space
- soft totalitarianism of market forces
- over-organization
- reduction of problems to questions of statistics
- limitations on public assembly
- communication itself has been elevated to the level of an absolute value, irrespective of what is actually communicated
- language and thought areas are alterated by mass media slogans
- they are let in people's minds like Orwell's doublethink
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Connection with Orwell's themes
- the danger of propaganda
- the useless of any revolution by the masses
- the danger of the personality cult
- easy manipulation of the masses
- control of the language as a political instrument
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