1984; A shocking Dystopian world that may yet come

This book was one of the novels that I had heard was in the Senior year reading requirements, so like any nerd, I read it ahead of schedule. When I was reading about Big Brother always watching you, it got me thinking about post 9/11 and the Patriot Act, that could take away a person's privacy. Thinking about it now, we give our privacy away freely on social media, in apps, and online when we agree to the Terms and Conditions without reading any of it. Orwell builds this society where life is written and rewritten over and over again,

'And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," they called it: in Newspeak, "doublethink" '. This book is larger than its pages, and deserving of more than one read; because it speaks of issues that we face everyday; things that sit in the background, but are still affecting us. I am still opening my eyes to what the world of Oceania really was, and how our world is so similar.