George Orwell's Crusade Against Totalitarianism Term Paper

But that's where we are now. 'We have to look at this operation very carefully and maybe it shouldn't be allowed to go ahead at all'" (Nat Hentoff, p.A19).

Today we find our system of government to claim that they are the only people who know the difference between right and wrong and thus while the entire world should disarm themselves of nuclear warheads, we should keep them. Our government went into Iraq for war even when the United Nations was against it. This was because they claimed to know what was right and rejected the decision of the United Nations. These are very similar to what is described in 1984 and such factors makes one think about what the future will be like. While it may seem that we are headed in the right direction, because people feel that they are given the freedom of speech and thought and that their government knows what is best, the reality is however much different. If things keep on going the way they are then instead of having a bright future, we will end up under conditions best described by George Orwell.Works Cited

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2) John David Frodsham. "The New Barbarians: Totalitarianism, Terror and the Left Intelligentsia in Orwell's 1984." World Affairs 147.3 (1984): 139.

3) David Goodman. "Orwell's 1984: The Future Is Here George Orwell Believed the Stark Totalitarian Society He Described in 1984 Actually Would Arrive by the Year 2000, Thanks to the Slow, Sinister Influence of Socialism." Insight on the News 17.49 (2001): 22.

4) Jackson Thoreau. "Under Bush, the Poor Get Poorer." [Online website] Available at http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/09/26_poor.html[Accessed on: 28/11/2005]

5) William Norman Grigg. "Using Hate to Feed the State: The Case of Trent Lott Illustrates the Establishment Media's Use of a Totalitarian Tactic Described in George Orwell's 1984." The New American 19.3 (2003): 33.

6) Nat Hentoff. "A Conversation with a Candid Senator; Hatch Said Computer Plan Could Make 2003 like Orwell's 1984." The….....