Yesterday, I bought George Orwell’s 1984 from a bookshop in San Pablo. Compared to its original price, the book that I bought was dirt cheap. Too bad that most Filipinos only give a shit about romance novels, athletes, so-called celebrities and other distractions.
The book 1984 is about a member of the Outer Party who eventually dabbled with various kinds of rebellion (one example of it is to have sex for the sake of sex, which is illegal) having to the point that he got snitched on by his “closest contacts”. If you’re going to buy the book or look for the ebook, which is clandestinely distributed in some countries due to copyright laws, then you’ll probably understand the next set of paragraphs.
Oceania is similar to the Philippines while “Big Brother” is just a figurehead. In reality, BB is just a puppet of the Inner Party. The Inner Party represents the ones who have the power – the oligarch scum that is known to distort facts and waste people just to keep their asses in power. Winston Smith represents the government officials who are either disgruntled with the current regime or powerless citizens who claim that they can’t do anything about it. The proles are the “masa”, who are distracted by prolefeed, various stuff that the regime and its lackeys produce. Some members of the masa provide “distraction” to other members of the masses (go figure). Read more
