The Government: The Non Totalitarian Government

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negean is the best person. The non totalitarian government has given us some trust, but is constantly intruding civilian privacy. In 1984, a branch of the government, The Ministry of Truth oversees the distribution of propaganda and entertainment. In modern society, the government does the same, they control all media outlets including, the internet, television, radio, even reading books or magazines. Media outlets are ways for people to express their true feelings and/or personal beliefs and the government is trying to limit all possible individuality, “Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom” (64). Some people may believe that

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