George Orwells' Book: 1984
Reviewed By Stan Skrabut, Ed.D. When friends shared memes saying that 1984 was not a how-to manual, I didn’t understand but now I do. It became time to read 1984 when Susan Henking suggested it in a Facebook post in which she tagged me. Having never given much thought to the book, I did know it was about the idea of government eavesdropping but not much more. I always heard that Big Brother was watching. I understood it to mean that your conversations could be listened to and that you had less privacy. The world of 1984 was much more. I found the book to be unnerving especially in 2017. George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949. It is about a dystopian world that is at constant war. It does not need to be at war, but it is one of the many mechanisms to control the general population. War is only one strategy The Party uses. Other strategies include the rewriting of history, constant falsification, the dumbing down of society, increasing a nationalistic frenzy, and the loss of priv