1984

THEMES, IDEAS,

CONNECTIONS

 

GOVERNMENT

 

1984 as an example of the failure of Communism, Stalinism, Marxism

 

Oceania and the USSR

Oceania  and Nazi Germany

Big Brother as Hitler or Stalin or the cult figure of your choosing

 

 

What is the state of medical/health care in 1984?  Are there implications here for the U.S.?

Orwellian Future in USA?

1984 and the US today?

American Oceania: How close are we?

The U.S. and Oceania: how to get from here to there (and we’re not talking about travel)

1984 as a warning about how democracies become authoritarian states run by elites

 

WHIG (the White House Iraq Group run by VP Cheney) as the Inner Party

 

1984 and U.S. government Newspeak.

 

The Military-Industrial Complex: what President Eisenhower warned us about more than 50 years ago has come true about why we fight, or 'how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.'