"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself —anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…"
... What I think is quite as thought-provoking as this wonderful photo you posted, Stan, is that the concept of Big Brother is no longer synonymous with a fictional concept of tyranny, conformity and oppression but signifies a reality TV show where the danger for the producers is perhaps dropping viewer ratings ... ? Hmmm.
See http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21799206-5006009,00.html
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself —anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…"
ReplyDelete... What I think is quite as thought-provoking as this wonderful photo you posted, Stan, is that the concept of Big Brother is no longer synonymous with a fictional concept of tyranny, conformity and oppression but signifies a reality TV show where the danger for the producers is perhaps dropping viewer ratings ... ? Hmmm.
See http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21799206-5006009,00.html
I don't get it... I'm only in the 5th grade
ReplyDeleteAfter you've read this book by George Orwell -
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
- you will get it.