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Published 3 March 2021
Eric Blair, or George Orwell if you like, predicted in his book, “Nineteen Eighty Four: A Novel,” written in 1948, but published in 1949, that a phenomenon he called “Big Brother,” will be monitoring and dictating the direction and the quality of the lives of citizens, by 1984.
The world would become a dystopia, a state or society, usually totalitarian and despotic, where citizens go through suffering and injustice. The world, under one government, would routinely endure war and other disasters.
The major themes of “1984” are exposure of the evils of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, (which the social media have perfected), repressive regimentation of the lives of citizens and conduct or behaviour prescribed by Big Brother that is watching them all the time.