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On a note entirely unrelated to the above comment, I find it somewhere between humorous and worrying that people who seem to have never actually read 1984 seem
by LordDragonfang 5y ago
On a note entirely unrelated to the above comment, I find it somewhere between humorous and worrying that people who seem to have never actually read 1984 seem insistent on invoking it for things that are entirely unrelated to the book and have occurred for decades in most countries (showing documents for travel, having to get vaccinated for certain jobs) and ignore all the other things happening that were actually in the book. Like, for example, historical revisionism by party-controlled media.
These vaccination cards are totally unprecedented[1] and authoritarian. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
[1] https://www.kxan.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/04/yellow-fever-passport.jpg https://www.kxan.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/04/yel...
- dlsa 5y agoPlenty of parallels but you won't get exact matches... yet a few things stand out. I'd point at the war-on-terror as a good example of a permanent or equivalent always-at-war situation. Its not a stretch to suggest that a lot of the privacy and surveillance is based around anti-terrorism initiatives and plenty of security theater is now in place because of that. The war-on-drugs was another version of that. The war-on-... rhetoric in general is almost cliché now. This is not to say its not serious but consider the 1970s had quite a lot of terrorism going on. eg The UK had regular bombings from the IRA. Political correctness tends to adjust definitions in ways very reminiscent of Double-speak. It seems to be a rich source of new words and terms. Like a conveyor belt. The surveillance aspect is obvious.