PhotoThe dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984” suddenly feels all too familiar. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe the National Security Agency) is always listening in, and high-tech devices can eavesdrop in people’s homes. A world of endless war, where fear and hate are drummed up against foreigners, and movies show boatloads of refugees dying at sea. A world in which the government insists that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” — but rather, “whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.”“1984” shot to No. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyNot surprisingly, “1984” has found a nervous readership in today’s “post-truth” era.

Source: New York Times January 26, 2017 22:53 UTC