The one thing "1984" missed

[Robin Landseadel]

 From today's "Salon":

"Orwell, you should be living at this hour.
A medium ranking, 30 something year old man works on programmes  
concerned with gathering global information and using it in the  
interests of the state. Although he is an agency insider and enjoys  
the modest state privileges that derive from that, he comes to the  
conclusion that ‘The People’, in whose name he does these things, are  
not its beneficiaries but its victims, and that for all its talk of  
freedom and truth the state is intent on deceiving them. The man wants  
to admit his rebellious thoughts and reveal the deception but knows  
that by doing so he is going to make the rest of his life difficult,  
not to say short, and there will be no going back. He does it all the  
same. He has no accomplices, except his girlfriend. The world has yet  
to decide what will happen to him."



http://www.salon.com/2013/12/17/orwell_ed_snowden_saga_shows_the_one_thing_1984_missed_partner/-
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