1984, "The Day That Will Hopefully Never Come"

After reading this book, I have new found respect for the world that I live in. I say this because if I had to live in the world of 1984's setting, then I would probably be dead. All the freedoms that we as Americans have, are freedoms that, for the most part, would not exist in the world of 1984. It almost seems as if the people in this book live in a world not all that different than that of Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. You have to constantly watch what you do or say every damn waking moment of your life. The telescreen was something new to me, I never thought of the government instrumenting such a device to keep an eye of all of its people. It must really suck to have to worry if you are being watched by "Big Brother" all the time. I personally would probably be dead if I lived in that world, cause I don't know how to keep my mouth shut as it is, let alone keeping it shut when the government is telling me what, when, where, and how to do something every damn day of my life. I'm not one for authority if you haven't already noticed, so yea, the world of 1984 would be a short lived one for me. I would have to say that I would stockpile a bunch of weapons and go down fightin in a blaze of glory if I was a person living in the world that this novel portrayed.