Big Brother in today's society

      In George Orwell's book: "1984", he depicts a totalitarian regime modeled after Communist Russia, which was a large influence at the time the book was published.

      Now, you may be thinking exactly what this has to do with todays society, considering the fact that the book itself is 27 years old..
Well, in the book, the government ( referred to as " the party" ) takes invasion of privacy to a completely new level. Every citizen has a large screen in their house in which law officials can hear and listen to you as you watch anything on the screen. ......  kind of like a webcam on a laptop? 

( Now THERE is a slight resemblance, dont you think?)   

Furthermore, in the book, the government abolishes free-thought, and makes it punishable by death. They actually have thought police who can control this; the government of the United States has the ability, and RIGHT, appearantly to listen in to cellphone calls,  screen text messages and e-mails, tap house phone lines, and open your mail... all in the name of  " Homeland Security"  ..... UH OH! More similarities.

http://www.aclu.org/national-security/ -----> Harrasment.

 

Now that this is becomming a liiiiiiiittle more eerie, have you ever noticed the growing ammount of surveilance cameras in every possible place you could think of, as well as those you wouldn't think of, like schools, traffic lights, gyms, etc. This begins to raise questions like:

" What kind of security needs to be added to gyms and schools... or maybe were just being watched?"
"Who EXACTLY is watching me?"        <---------- How do you feel about this?

   

: What would happen to him in the book?

Overall, this whole concept is continually and persistantly becomming a reality, weather we like it or not.
So, in the end the question is, how do we change this, and is it possible?