Monday, August 5, 2013

ARE WE LIVING IN ORWELL'S 1984? LISTEN TO AUDIOTAPE

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Then we examine the extent to which today we are living in George Orwell’s classic novel “1984”. Lewis Beale, who writes on culture and film for the Los Angeles Times and Newsday joins us to discuss his article at CNN “We’re Living ‘1984’ Today”, and the similarities between the contemporary American surveillance state with the novel’s “doublethink”, “newspeak” and “endless war” of the dystopian future Orwell predicted in 1948.

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