A Comparison of George Orwells Totalitarian World of 1984 and America

Orwells Totalitarian World of 1984 is America in 2004 Orwells allegoric critique of Stalinism in 1984 is often used in capitalistic nations as a poignant literary attack on collectivism and other collectivist economic and political agreements. The argument often follows the lines of This is socialist economy, and as you tin can see, it doesnt work and skillful leads to oppression. Were in a nice capitalist democracy, therefore we are better off. notwithstanding is that conclusion the truth? Orwell didnt just intend 1984 as an attack on communism or socialism instead it is both an attack and a rather prophetic sample against any authoritarian structure, including the authoritarian structure of capitalist democracies. Often we do not equate democracy with totalisticism, but thanks to the manipulation of language, we can have both democracy and a corrupt and oppressive regimen simultaneously. How? Through the wonders of Orwells newspeak and doublethink. This is not newspeak exactly as Orwell portrayed it (a open render at centralized modification of language), but more in the skeletal system of what Orwell warned about in his essay Language and Politics. The subtle debasing of run-in has allowed the powerful in democratic nations to successfully install a system which is blatantly counter-democratic in its behavior and yet is masked by malformed language. Democracy means, to umteen Americans, a system in which they choose their profess leaders, voice their opinions to representatives in government, and human rights and freedoms are respected by the state. But in practice, democracy, when applied abroad by the United States, means subjugating aboriginal peoples to the will of American corporations, and in the process, the destruction... ...s ideas of Newspeak and doublethink. Those who think America is far from the totalitarian world of 1984 are actually dead wrong. It is 1984 today in many respects the only difference is that the leaders have done a much better job of covering up their wrongdoing. It could be verbalize that Orwell was the prophet and Chomsky is the messiah of our current democratic state.Works CitedChomsky, Noam. Profit everywhere People Neoliberalism and Global Order. New York septenary Stories Press, 1999.Chomsky, Noam. The Chomsky Trilogy (The Prosperous Few And the prompt Many (1994), Secrets, Lies and Democracy (1994), and What Uncle Sam Really Wants (1992) ). Tucson, AZ Odonian Press/Seven Stories Press, 1999. (available in e-text from the Noam Chomsky Archive http//www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm)Orwell, George. 1984. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949.