George Orwell Part Five.

Room 101.

"You asked me once,what was in room 101.I told you that you know the answer already.The thing that is in room 101  is the worst thing in the World". This a from Orwell's book ,'1984.'.

Room 101 is described as a place of torture,where prisoners are forced to face their worst fears.Even a citizens nightmares are known  to the Party.In the book,Winston Smith was going to be attacked by rats, as this was his worst fear.

As we are now in a sort of almost 3D version of the afore-mentioned book,although we don't have a room 101, (as far as we know) torture has been inflicted on thousands of people in this so called,'war on terror'.
Most of the toture was done by America and Britain, though America claims  this practise has now ceased.Britain denies that torture has been used, but the truth is slowly emerging that certainly seems to contadict that highly suspicious assertion.

As Ron Paul said on 12.November 2011 in Spartanburg S.C,"Torture is illegal by our laws.It's illegal by International Law."


Big Brother.

In the book everyone is under surveillance by the authorities.This was done mainly by telescreens which is quite amazing, as T.V. did not become a fixture in people's lives untill the nineteen fifties. The book, remember, was written in  the mid nineteen forties.

In our World some people claim that computers and T.V's have cameras  that are watching us.But most of the spying is done by cameras everywhere.

Big Brother IS watching you.Every major city has  thousands of lenses watching people. In the United Kingdom they really fell in love with surveillance..According to an article by Paul Lewis in the Guardian on 2.3.2011, there is one CCTV camera for every 32 people! The London tube network has 11,000.Altogether it is estimated that there are 1,853,681 CCTV's in the U.K.!

The trouble is though, they tend to malfunction, as they did .on 7.7.2005, when the London bombings took place.Strange that.

I wonder if the T.V. reality shows with Big Brother  watching the people who participate in these  games are broadcast to take our minds away from the fact that it is us who are really being watched .Psychologicly , to re-direct our focus and attention on one particular event in the attempt to prevent us from acknowledging(maybe subconsciously) that Big Brother is watching us.In the same way that a phobia is only concerned with one fear,whereas it may well have started life as a feeling of general fear.

Facecrime.

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in a public place, or within range of a telescreen.The smallest thing could give you away.A nervous tic.a look of anxiety.....There was even a word for it in Newspeak; Facecrime."This is from the book'Nineteen Eighty -Four'.
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I understand that at airports ,officials are now being trained to observe peoples facial and body mannerisms to ascertain whether such people are looking suspicious and might commit a crime.If the officials are of the opinion,say that Mr.Simm's face has a perplexed, shifty look( the fact the Mr.Simms has had this expression all his life-he just generally feels perplexed, and he looks shifty because that look runs in his family,is not taken into consideration.) they have the power to detain him and interrogate him,and in fact make his life very unpleasant.

In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Facecrime is described as follows; an indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on their facial expression.

Prolefeed.

In' Nineteen Eight -Four', the general population(the masses) are called proles.The Ministry Of Truth tries to keep the Proles content, and at the same time, make sure that they don't become too knowledgable, lest they realise how awful the society they live in, is,and do the unthinkable and revolt.

To keep the Proles content the Ministry produces rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology; sensational cheap novels, films oozing with sex and sentimental songs( composed by a machine) and the lowest kind of porn.

Put a few modifications to the above , such as  not sentimental songs, but songs about hate and material goods and songs with sick lyrics and what do you find?

A society very much like the one we live in.

Part six of this George Orwell series will follow shortly.