High school graduates in Perth were astounded by the startling accuracy of their teacher’s doomsday prophecies from 38 years before.
Former pupils from Kalamunda Senior High School, located east of Perth, published the principal’s letter from the school yearbook from 1984 on a Facebook page.
The letter writer quoted George Orwell’s dystopian book 1984, saying some of its ‘frightening prospects’ have materialized. That book was released in 1948.
The author said, “We are living in hazardous times.”
Our brains can be manipulated and brainwashed.
Our privacy is violated in a variety of sneaky and egregious ways.
“Our safety is always under danger.” Our “freedoms” are being violated.
Former pupils from Kalamunda Senior High School, located east of Perth, published the principal’s letter from the school yearbook from 1984 on a Facebook page.
In 1984, the Kalamunda Senior High School administration issued a warning about the danger to privacy.
One former pupil said, “He was correct,” probably alluding to current Covid limitations that WA had to deal with.
Another person said, “He might be describing today quite correctly.”
Imagine what he would have written if he had believed that the 1980s were a hazardous decade, a third person said.
High school graduates in Perth were astounded by the startling accuracy of their teacher’s doomsday prophecies from 38 years before.
Former pupils from Kalamunda Senior High School, located east of Perth, published the principal’s letter from the school yearbook from 1984 on a Facebook page.
The letter writer quoted George Orwell’s dystopian book 1984, saying some of its ‘frightening prospects’ have materialized. That book was released in 1948.
The author said, “We are living in hazardous times.”
Our brains can be manipulated and brainwashed.
Our privacy is violated in a variety of sneaky and egregious ways.
“Our safety is always under danger.” Our “freedoms” are being violated.
Former pupils from Kalamunda Senior High School, located east of Perth, published the principal’s letter from the school yearbook from 1984 on a Facebook page.
In 1984, the Kalamunda Senior High School administration issued a warning about the danger to privacy.
One former pupil said, “He was correct,” probably alluding to current Covid limitations that WA had to deal with.
Another person said, “He might be describing today quite correctly.”
Imagine what he would have written if he had believed that the 1980s were a hazardous decade, a third person said.
In 1948, George Orwell released 1984 as a warning against dictatorial regimes.
The principal warned that individuals who graduated from high school in 1984 would face difficulties.
You will need to put up a struggle to ensure that you and your children enjoy a happy and fulfilled future, he stated.
“I wish you the bravery and vigor to do it.”
His most dire proclamation, made while the US and the Soviet Union were engaged in a nuclear weapons race, has since partly faded.
The message warned students that “the enormous cloud of nuclear madness and push-button genocide hovers over everything.”
In the dystopian society depicted in the novel 1984, the populace is continuously under surveillance and fed propaganda by the governing party, which has complete control over every area of society.
Everyone must pledge fealty to the fictitious party’s Big Brother.
The renowned dystopian novel In the novel 1984, a single party is depicted as ruling over every area of society.
Even Orwell couldn’t have foreseen that the name of a well-known reality TV program where competitors voluntarily agree to 24-hour camera monitoring and transmission would be the symbol of one-party rule.
In the novel 1984, there are several surveillance “telescreens,” which might be seen as a prelude to contemporary CCTV coverage and the prevalence of mobile phones with recording capabilities.
Eric Blair, better known by his pen name Orwell, wrote the book as a warning against the authoritarian tendencies that he saw developing in Europe, particularly as a result of the Soviet version of communism.
Orwell’s warnings of a society under constant monitoring came true for this German demonstrator in 2013.
Additionally, Orwell created the well-known political allegory Animal Farm, in which the Russian Revolution is symbolized by pigs occupying a farm.