My fifteen year old is reading 1984 right now in preparation for Honor’s English 10 in the fall and he commented last night that Big Brother doesn’t seem all that bad to him. He knows about Snowden and WIkileaks and we speak about civil liberties and are a very political family but regardless of this, he has come to see fascist governments spying on their own people and lying to them as the norm rather than a scandalous exception.
It broke my heart to realize that Big Brother’s techniques have become so accepted today that he can’t even see why or how they are shocking.
