I first read George Orwell’s “1984” in, let’s say, 1969. It was Jr. High, I must have been reading it because it was a cool semi radical thing to do at the time, Big Brother is Watching You, etc..
I’m reading it today, and it may as well be the first time I’m reading it.
The first 12 pages are horrifying and I can’t get over the feeling, as I read it on this IPad, that I’m staring into the screen of the all-seeing, all-hearing, “telescreen”.
What have we unleashed on the world?
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