It has come to my attention through constant analysis and comparison of world society that we live in what could best be described as a merger between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. One can see when looking at the Western World that we live in a combination of these two distopian ideas: Huxley's masses placated through entertainment and drugs, and incr
easingly dependant on technology; and Orwell's surveillance state, continuous war, and organizational pyramid. From Wikipedia:
"In the year 1984, Ingsoc divides Oceanian society into three social classes, the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles:
The Inner Party make policy, affect decisions, and govern; they are known as “The Party,” and constitute the upper class of Oceanian society. Among their upper-class privileges is the ability to (temporarily) shut off their telescreens. They live in spacious, comfortable homes, have good food and drink, personal servants, and speedy transportation such as personal helicopters and automobiles. No Outer Party member or Prole may enter an Inner Party neighbourhood without a good pretext. The Outer Party work the state’s administrative jobs; they are the middle class, whose “members are allowed no vices other than ci******es and Victory Gin”, and who are the citizens most spied upon, via telescreens and surveillance. This is because, according to history, the middle class is the most dangerous; they are the ones to incite revolution, the one thing The Party does not want. They live in rundown neighbourhoods, use crowded subways as transportation, have poorer food and drink, and are denied s*x for any other purpose than having children within marriage, and are expected to look at it as a duty, rather than pleasure. The Proles are the lower class of workers. They live in the poorest conditions, but they can be considered as more fortunate than the Outer Party members since they are not constantly watched by Big Brother, and the Party keeps them happy and sedates them with alcohol, gambling, sport, s*xual promiscuity, and prolefeed (Fabricated books, po*******hy). A few undercover agents of the Thought Police do mark down and eliminate any Prole individuals deemed capable of becoming dangerous by spreading false rumours. Proletariat are 85 percent of Oceania’s populace." At the top is Big Brother, the supreme ruler. There is no discernible "Big Brother" in modern society, but that is not to say that one does not exist. Most people just generally refer to Big Brother as the state, but I believe that is limited. Big brother is our system; governments, economies, monetary systems. Big brother in the modern terms is controlled by the Inner Party. The Inner Party in modern Western society is made of those government officials, business men, and the groups to which they belong such as the Bilderberg Group. There are many private groups in which world leaders meet beyond the eye of the public and in complete secrecy; the Bilderberg Group is just one of the smallest and most influential. We are to just trust that they are no colluding against the masses for their own profit? The modern Outer Party is the middle class. Generally ignorant to the truth of the situation, they champion Big Brother and the Inner Party as if they are the heroes and saviors of the people. They are not only ignorant of the true workings of the system, but completely miss how derogatory it is to them and human existence as a whole. The Outer Party blames the Proles and the Enemy for all the woes of their lives, completely disregarding the oppression of Big Brother. We Are The Proles. We make up the largest percentage of the population and have the power to incite the middle class into throwing off the corruption of the Inner Party. This page continue to be dedicated to disseminating information that reflects the problems with the modern world.
