We're living '1984' today

I strongly urge you to look outside your box. When you hear the words 'our world' do you take it to mean "us here in our western paradise"?

Because if you look at North Korea: definitely. If you look at the wars in Syria and Libya: definitely. If you look at the NSA in the USA: oh hell yes. Doubleplus1984, brother. No question about it: you can be taken away and disappeared, in most Western societies, for not thinking like the Party wants you to think. Russia: sexcrime!

Thoughtcrime? You're probably committing one right now, just arguing with a stranger on the Internet.

Look, lets just go away and come back when we're actually really living in a world like 1984, shall we? Or - while we still have the capacity, lets talk about the similarities and what we can do to prevent the downward slide. Because there is very little doubt that we are, rapidly, sliding into the hole as painted by Orwells' warning, and without those of us with the intellect to do something about it actually DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT, we're going to see things get a lot, lot worse.

And yet we take another step closer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159633