I have my own predictions for the year 2050. It's mostly inspired by two books from my favorite author, George Orwell. The first one is 1984 and the other is about the Russian revolution, Animal Farm. George Orwell is a man of intelligence and with his books, has painted an image of his very own predictions. Who do you think resembles 'Big Brother' in our world today? How much time is left until the 'Thought police' takes over our ways of thought and imagination? Our world might evolve from a 'democractic' nation to a totalitarian state. Or is it the other way around?
There's hope in society I hear people say. However, freedom is only a dream. How do we free ourselves when society can't define its moral values?
"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 igve 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…" 1984 —pg 54
"No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." Animal farm - Chapter 10, pg. 118
Think about it.
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