Your World Today: Unpopular governments can learn from ‘1984’ by
Timothy J.A. Passmore Jan 18, 2013 | 318 views | 0 0
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Having never met French President François Hollande, I don’t
know if he has ever read George Orwell’s groundbreaking novel,
“1984.”  It’s not the kind of detail one reveals about oneself
on the campaign trail. If, indeed, this was not part of his
reading list in previous years, it appears he is inadvertently
applying one of the great political schemes found in the story
to reaffirm his position as France’s leader.  Published in 1949,
Orwell’s monumental work follows a society under strict control
by a totalitarian government known as “The Party.” Any
government with such domination inevitably faces opposition at
some point in time which usually takes the form of revolution.
This has been evident in countless cases throughout history.
However, The Party employs one particular method of preventing a
popular uprising which is to create t