Or shall I address you by your real name, Mr. Eric Arthur Blair? My name is Michael and I wanted to take the time to thank you for writing such a profound idea of a future society. Just to come up with a theory, a theory which is relevant today in my society is unheard of. Reading your published journalistic work printed in The Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News were also articles worth delving into. But for you to come up with an idea based on a dystopian universe, after reading your memoirs forced me to think, could such a place in the future possibly exist? A government whose sole purpose centers on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviors within a society was something I could never imagine happening. Where much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda was beyond my comprehension. A government ruled by a “Party.” A Party that chooses to employ a so-called “Thought Police” to persecute individualism and independent thinking, while their leader enjoys a “Cult of Personality” persona. A sort of “Big Brother” who constantly pushes a new and accepted idea called “Doublespeak.” That’s when the truth becomes not the truth. Where free thought becomes a “Thoughtcrime.” And the daily news becomes “Newspeak” and “Official Deception” and many of the citizens believe the truth is told on this one news channel. I’m at a lost that you could come up with a….how shall I say it? An Orwellian way of thinking. Things such as official government deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology and my favorite….a manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian/authoritarian country or state. Let me be the first of many to say we loved what you jotted down on paper.

It’s such a shame you left us so early. 1950 was only the beginning of what I would be exposed to six-years later. You missed the “Doublespeak” of how the “Party” would try to convince the people that war was good but civil rights was bad. And the “Thought Police” who thought it was a good idea to take control of a women’s rights, the right to protest, the right to healthcare and freedom of speech, because they thought those rights were bad ideas. Just the thought of a woman having control over her own body was a thought she shouldn’t think. Just the thought of someone disagreeing with the “Cult of Personality” could lead to someone falling prey to a person who believes in being part of the “Cult.” And when the resistance speaks to the masses against the ones who follow “Big Brother” blindly, they are met with “Official Deception” only believed by those who follow “Big Brother.” I’m sure freedom of speech wasn’t such a major problem in your time but unfortunately, it’s become a major one in my time. For some reason unknown to me, God is starting to become a cause to them. A major cause.

            Not that you would know, but I grew-up in a time of turmoil. Riots, people not liking people because of who they are and what they believe. I would ask you how you dealt with the fact that your father, Richard Walmesley Blair was an opium dealer, but that would stray from the point I was focusing on. Or maybe not. You were educated in England during a time when The British Empire was exerting the “British Raj” in India, so maybe you might’ve experienced the same indifference in a different way. One group dominating another. And that’s the problem I and others are facing right now. The “Party” along with “Big Brother” are basically not only ignoring the laws of nature but also the laws of mankind. The only ones we must blame are ourselves because we were warned these actions would take place back in 1991 when a fellow “Party” member, President George W. Bush Sr, told our government, the nation and the world that a “New World Order” is coming. Coming slowly but surely. A “Party Order” slowly gaining control over what was once called a “Democratic Society.” A society that still believes in the rule of law, fighting against a “Party” that thinks it is above it because as far as they are concerned, the rule of law doesn’t apply to them. I have to ask you a question. Did the idea for your book, 1984 come from issues you had to face when another “Party” attempted to enact their idea of a totalitarian society on the world? You would’ve been at least 43 years old when the majority of Europe was invaded by a country many considered a friend. I’m only asking because it seems to me the “Party” in control right now thinks it’s a good idea to try “that once tried idea” again.

            And here we are dealing with a similar scenario. A so-called “Big Brother” who wants total control of a country, along with his followers. A person who wants to be a type of king, or dictator or maybe a Tsar. He has no problem associating with leaders who also exert that type of power.  As I said before, laws do not matter to him, human rights do not matter but the false information and lies he spews daily does matter. Separating families from one another and putting them in cages or what I think are controlled “Camps” situations, the core value of race relations is slowly degrading and pitting religions against each other seems like a valid idea to him. And the power within the “Party” continues to blossom. Growing stronger every day.

            There’s an old saying, and I’m sure it was around when you were around; “History repeats itself.” Maybe, I don’t know. But the one thing I have seen and learned so far, is that every great civilization has destroyed itself within and the power of the people will always find a way to deal with tyranny. Let’s hope a solution will arrive soon. We can only pray the new leaders we elected will exert the governmental power endowed to them and find a way to unite us. United in a way where we all will become aware of the direction our nation is heading. A direction which will only benefit the few and not the many.

            I’m sorry I interrupted your day because I’m sure you had other more important things to deal with, and our situation has not only been constantly on my mind but the minds of my friends. Even though you’re not around to experience an idea you created through your words, and if you have a problem understanding what I’m saying ,maybe this might help you realize your words predicted a future you did or didn’t know would eventually happen.

“If you look, you’re sure gonna find…throughout mankind’s history, a colonized mind. The one in power makes law, under which the colonized fall, but without God it’s just the blind leading the blind.”  Thank you for taking the time to read my….I don’t know what to call it, I only wanted you to know….you saw it coming and you were right!

Sincerely,

Michael