WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS
SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS
STRENGTH
"He gazed up at the enormous face.
Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the
dark mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed
exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of
his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was
finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother" ~ George
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four (1984)
With all the news wires abuzz over
the past year and a half about the revelations concerning domestic spying in
the United Kingdom and the United States
by Edward Snowden, the former technical contractor for the United States
National Security Agency (NSA) and a former employee of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) we at Far Future Horizons thought it only fitting
that we present the most recent film adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian
novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). The novel and film illustrate the full magnitude of how our
civil rights as citizens may eventually become eroded.
Snowden leaked details of top-secret U.S.
