[Count of Monte Fisto]

In Orwell's 1984 Big Brother and the Thought Police were not concerned with the proles, whom they saw as a mindless rabble. They closely watched the Party Members, the bureaucracy that made their society function. The bureaucrats where on the inside and new how the system really worked, like Winston discovered. They had to be keep on a tight leash because they could expose the lies and denial of reality that Big Brother was based on.

1984 could hardly considered fiction nowadays.

[Chickensoup]

1984 could hardly considered fiction nowadays.

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1984 was never fiction. It was a depiction of totalitarian life that was at that time experienced in a number of fascist countries.

[reformedliberal]

If you read/listen to the ubiquitous news reports in “1984” (including the movie), the *proles* are constantly cited as the reason for many edicts. Triumphant proclamations of their increasingly improved status and conditions abound.

Just like today with *the children*, *single mothers*, *minorities*, *illegals* et al being used to justify everything being done to the rest of us.

The real story of “1984” is the story of the Inner and Outer Party. Inner Party members have the privilege of turning off the constant barrage of propaganda and the attendant spy cameras, for example, besides having access to some *luxuries*.

All Party members were constantly snooping & reporting on each other and no one could trust anyone, even their lover. The proles are useful, so they are allowed every vice. The more proles, the more justification for hardship. The more hardship, the more people will do anything for a crumb of favor.

Basically, everyone not in the Inner Party or a prole was a member of the Outer Party or an outlaw/enemy.

Just like today.

[FreedomPoster]

Orwell was a prophet.