What do Jimmy Carter and George Orwell have in common? On Tuesday of this week, Carter said that the “US does not….. have a functioning democracy.” Taken from a recent book, George Orwell: A Life In Letters by Peter Davison, Orwell said in 1944, in the US, there is a “general indifference to the decay of democracy.” What was seen in 1944 by George Orwell as simply a decay of democracy has reached its fruition as no longer functioning per Jimmy Carter.
Other signs of collapsed democracies or Orwellian societies can be seen in:
- Revelations that the NSA is spying on its own citizens
- UK journalists’ hard drives are being destroyed, to avoid governmental legal action with regards to reporting on Edward Snowden.
- Homeland Security in the process of merging closed circuit TV cameras and face recognition to profile US citizens.
- Email users should expect to have no privacy
- Israel hiring students to post favorable tweets and Facebook comments to combat anti-Semitism
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