I must admit I didn’t really understand what that they were saying back then.
But movies like The Omega Man, Soylent Green, The Omen and Omen II, They Live, and the clips I’ve seen from ‘1984’ are indicative of our times.
None of them are perfect, of course. I remember when they seemed mostly like fiction.
Now, they seem somewhat.....
We had some good classroom discussions about those books and the warnings they were giving to us, so those books and that teacher sent me down a good path: never take freedom for granted.
I hope there are still teachers like that.