Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-10-05
issued: 1983-12-28
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note: ammma iiieuiiuiiiJiiii.i Legislative Library ■parliament Bulldimgs Viotorla, b.C. ORWELL'S PROPHECY OF TOTALITARIANISM I Orwell. Orwellian. Big Brother. 1984. These words *voke strong im- ' ages-even among those who haven't read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Pour. The book has become the symbol of totalitarian control and its terms the shorthand of fear. With 1994 just four days away, references to the book are more than ever valid. The most often asked question is how close '"arts we to Orwfell's visibn? \ Periiaps closer than we care to think. The technology exists to permit the sort of total control Orwell wrote about. For Orwell's constantly watching two-way TV screen, substitue computer information banks, and the effect could be the same, or worse, j In Canada the danger is growing not from some malevolent Big Brother but from the efforts of government and business to be efficient, to protect secrecy and to provide new services which, often as a side-effect, erode individual privacy. As Orwell tried to explain after Nineteen Eighty-Pour was published, only our strong commitment to liberty can prevent his prophecy from coming true. ... In the novel, written just after the Second Worid War, Orwell envisioned a world split up by three superpowers which waged permanent war against one another, changing allies and enemies regularly as a means of keeping their citizens whipped into a freioy. Set in Oceania (Britain), Orwell's description of London in 1984 is modelled on the bomb- battered dty in the mid-1940s. Orwell was a political writer and the central figure of Nineteen Eighty-Four was his vision of the thorough totalitarian control by the party led by Big Brother. Sodety was divided into two dasses - party members and proles, workers who. simple min- "dedly did their jobs and spent their spare time sodden in gin. The' book is the tale of the efforts of one man, Winston Smith, to break out of the control and be free. It was not fear alone which kept people in l…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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