George Orwell wasn't a fiction writer, he was a prophet, a prophet because he literally predicted every outrageous tyrannical thing that is happening right now, almost to the smallest detail. We now live in a very Orwellian world by clear standards, if you don't see that, you have just been blinded by the deception, but if you are awake you can already see the tyranny unfolding.
Politics
In Orwell's 1984 there are 3 Superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and East-Asia:
Oceania
Oceania's political ideology is Ingsoc which is a short for English Socialism, a totalitarian collectivist ideology with a tyrannical and ruthless ruling class. Comparing that to the current situation:
Well the tyranny becoming implemented in the US is undeniable, I mean you have:
- Mass surveillance
- Airport groping
- Warrantless searches and seisure
- Cop brutality
- Militarization of police
- Civil asset forfeiture
- Endless wars
- and many other bad things
Then you have the UK which is following pretty closely, I mean they are trying to ban encryption and many bad things. The cops in the UK are also now fully armed whereas in a few years ago they just had a club in those old British movies.
And now the UK is leaving the UK further aligning itself towards the US influence, while the EU is looking to become it's own sovereign superpower. It's clear that the UK is becoming like Airstrip One.
Also the economy in this zone is rapidly becoming left-collectivist, as an ever increasing Welfare and Warfare state is engulfing both economies.
Eurasia
In the novel Eurasia was Neo-Bolshevist tyranny, very much like the EU is an unelected bureaucracy and with the new EU army it looks to become an independent superpower.
Interestingly the EU was invented by Nazis which might sound like if it were a right-wing brainchild, but actually I don't think the Nazis were right wing at all, there may have been right-wing elements but looking at actual policies of Hitler, it seems like Nazism is more like a centrist-tyranny.
I mean there wasn't even clear property rights in Nazi Germany, not even for “aryan” germans, most of the stuff was nationalized, collectivized, and state-run by Nazi bureaucrats. They wanted the “aryans” to collectively think and act like some sort of brainwashed zombies. A right-wing dictatorship is what Augustus had, Hitler's economy and society was nothing like that. So Nazism had very many things in common with Bolshevism. Stalin was an Anti-Semite, and there is a great deal of evidence that Hitler knew Lenin well, too. The entanglement between Soviet Bolshevism and Nazism is remarkable.
So the current bureaucratic collectivist tyranny pushed by the EU, is very similar to Bolshevism and many Nazis secretly wished and planned for such a Bureaucracy to rule over Europe with German influence.
In the novel Eurasia is portrayed as many mindless fanatics cheering for it. If you go to social media, the number of EU supporting (liberal) trolls are overwhelming. They are either paid shills or totally brainwashed liberals who side with the EU on the Brexit matter, just from a trendy standpoint.
The EU propaganda is very deep now, so much that they are now literally making video games glorifying huge taxes:
It's only going to get worse once they get their Army. They are already planning to tax people to near-death, and even shutting down low tax zones and pushing Orwellian legislation all over the place.
I am not sure what Russia's role will be in Eurasia, since it's currently in conflict with the EU but who knows they might ally themselves against the newly forming Oceania.
East-Asia
In the novel East-Asia is a completely fanatic bloodthirsty tyranny where everyone is a fanatic, the ideology is "obliteration of the Self", absolute collectivism, no individual thought at all, just like robots. And they are "death worshippers".
Now this might sound a little bit racist, but indeed Asians are sometimes like that. Asians have very little conception of individualism and they act almost like robots.
Especially in Japan it seems like their robotic fanaticism and fetish for AI and computers have led these people to become very closed-minded and collectivist.
And during the WW2 Japan was literally "death worshipper", I mean the atrocities that the Japanese military had inflicted on POW's were absolutely demonic, from human experimenting to just horror-movie like bloodthirst and even cannibalism. To some extent the viciousness and bloodthirst was worse than what the Nazis did, that is not to say that the Nazis were not horrible bloodthirsty demons in their own way, but the Nazis were more like emotionless psychopaths just carrying out the atrocities without remorse. But the Japanese on the other hand almost like they did it for fun, the bloodthirst in those atrocities was unimaginable.
Look up what the Japanese did to the POW's, but I warn you it's very very graphical and disgusting, you just simply can't fathom the magnitude of the evil that went on there.
So yes the East Asian cultures have some serious fucked up beliefs, not that much these days, but who knows it it is still there dormantly waiting to resurface.
Then you have North Korea which is pretty much a prime example of this. They still have Concentration Camps by the way, and are still doing atrocious things there.
And China isn't exactly a human rights champion either, not just the internet censorship and the massive political repression and jailing and disappearing of journalists, but also who knows what other evil things go on there that the media doesn't cover.
You see the USA and UK are very much exposed for the bad things that go on there, simply because there is still free speech there. The fact that we know what is going on and that we are outraged about it, is good news. That means that there are still liberties that exist. At least a liberty to think...
We don't know a lot about North Korea and China, they hardly get covered in the news. So things could be a million times worse there, and nobody talks about it due to fear.
Sources:
- https://pixabay.com
- Ingsoc logo: By Nirwrath GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons