Why? Because of its underestimations of the nastiest possibilities of intimate Big Brother surveillance, for one thing and because we have no believable protection from its deployment by either governments or oversized corporations. It has become too alarming and depressing to re-read voluntarily.
Through a glass, darkly: dystopian anxiety casts a pall of dread over the most innocent scenes, these daysĪ question for everyone ready to scream from the tedium of seeing George Orwell’s name coupled yet again with dystopia: yes, yes, but have you tried re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Fourlately? If for instance you, like the writer of this pG entry, last immersed yourself in it decades ago, aged about fourteen, shouting with laughter as you read out to your mother passages that struck you as fiendishly funny, which nearly always mentioned Big Brother, an outlandish caricature you couldn’t conceive of as connected in any way to your own rather boring life?Īt the start of 2020, there is not much to laugh about in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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