Edward Snowden 1984 Analysis

The governments have been monitoring us, every single move of us perhaps. Ever Since the incident of Edward Snowden broke out, one of those biggest fears in digital age seemed to have come out of hiding, making Hollywood fictions look like playhouse, scattering real suspicions and insecurities into minds. In a sense, it’s like a spectacular 3D film, except for being free of charge and without special glasses. A majority of us believed firmly, despite our occasional cravings for those “worst-case scenario” fantasies, that the world we live in was of freedom, of well-protected individual territories. Well, that bubble may have just been harshly burst. What has it left with us now? A pervasive civil surveillance launched by the government. To many, it rings a particular year number—1984, or should I put it Nineteen Eighty-four? Yes, I’m talking about no other but the George Orwell’s political fiction-- a book once being a cautionary tale now turned into an accurate prophecy. It’s funny how when we sit back and bask under the glow of democracy and let the new generation learn the …show more content…
They were too busy with terror, fury, hatred and desperation, so that no one cared about living. They gladly annihilated all of emotions just to survive through the structure. That society became a system, an entity of its own, and at the end of it, lost without purpose to advance. If that world were an object, it was impossible to tell the color of it, nor the shape of it, as nothing reflects off of it. We are of course not in a world like that just yet, in which we are given with certain degree of freedom. Hence it would be unrealistic for the authorities to have their control exerted to the point like it was in the book, as the internet as well as other technologies has allowed greater access than humanity ever anticipated, offered a wider and free-er public sphere for ideas to be