Stanley and Steinhardt explain how the government has “unmatched power” to collect all the private sector data that is being produced (Stanley, Steinhardt 194). The vast amount of government bases that contain an abundance of information on American lives include databases in the FBI, The Treasury Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and State databases. The authors stress the USA Patriot Act, enacted just six weeks after 9/11 while the government was in a frenzy. This act allowed the government to expand its power to survey its own citizens and reduce the balances on powers such as judicial oversight. The authors continue to explain the act had nothing to do with fighting terrorism to its core but rather it rolled back the unwanted checks on power the FBI had.
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Author of “Aids, Opium, Diamonds and Empire” to speak on the evolution of the FDA depicted in this documentary, “ Titans of industry really wanted to control the world finance system as a whole”. Null goes on to say that there were many types of medical education across the United States. When the Rockefellers took over the medical industry they closed down those schools and only promoted sales of their drugs, surgery and radiation. The Rockefellers had an alliance with I.G. Farben whom is known as the largest chemical and pharmaceutical company in the world.
It became impossible for citizen to look into the past in an intelligent way, because there was nothing left of the “real” past. Winston did find the pawn shop which had many things from the past, and Winston felt comfortable in the pawn shop mostly because “the absence of the telescreen” which created a feeling of not being constantly watched that Winston liked, but considering the pawn shop owner, Mr. Charrington, was a spy for the party, this leaves the question of: was anything in that pawn shop really from the past, or just things the government wanted the public to see?” open ended for the audience to decide on their
By doing this the government is invading the citizens privacy. Not only does everyone in America have the right to privacy but every human being that is a citizen to any country in the United Nations. The NSA say that this program is strictly for finding terrorists and preventing any future terrorism attack it still bothers many people that nothing is private. The only reason that the NSA can perform these actions is because they are a government supported program. The privacy of millions of people can be violated because the government believes its right.
For example the “Big Brother,” is able to control and hear what people are saying at all times with the “telescreen,” a screen where members of the Party are able to hear what you say and talk to you through it. I believe this could be an allusion to television and it’s manipulating affects on people. How propaganda can control what people believe and feed us ideas that we may not necessarily have believed if it not exposed to by television. What I find so haunting about this book is how applicable it is to modern society. For example the propaganda that you hear on radio and watch on the television.
Some would even say they are the ones controlling the president. One of the most famed conspiracies of all time: the JFK assassination. Now it is clear there were two shooters. However, TV propaganda keeps saying, even though we hear 2 bullets on the audio recording, there was only one shot. Need more proof?
These camera are recording our every move, are they really used for our protection or are they used against us? Now days, television which have inbuilt spy-camera that are strikingly similar to the ones shown in 1984 by Gorge Orwell are being sold around the world. Orwell portrays the effects of a totalitarian government and their greed for more power and control. One condition that Orwell states is physiological control. This is also seen today as our own governments try to control us by political propaganda and fabricated news, which is also seen in the novel.
1984 Essay by In the book 1984, telescreens are like televisions that never turn off, always using propaganda to hammer in the Party’s ideas. The Thought Police are known to monitor the actions of citizens. Winston Smith keeps his back to the screen because he doesn’t want to conform. Winston lives in fear of the telescreen and eventually the Party has him “correcting” history to keep everyone ignorant. With the telescreens constantly shoving ideas into people heads and Wilsons “corrections” to history based on the Party’s records, people no longer can think for themselves.
This disconnection between the government and society shouldn’t be happening because we should know why we have to send our loved ones out to another country to fight for a “cause” that the government thinks is right. Next to war is the conspiracy that the government is tapping our phones and listening in to our conversations. If this is true the thought of this being an attempt of protecting is a bit crazy. For instance, 1984, the main character Winston says that everyone is being watched through a television kind of thing and that they cant commit thought crimes. Thought crimes being bad thoughts about the government or Big Brother.