1984 In many ways, Orwell’s view of the future has come true. Although we do not live in a world dominated by Communist super-powers, there are many aspects of our society that are prophesied in the book. Take, for example, the three land masses used in Nineteen Eighty-Four. There is Oceania, which encompasses the Americas and Great Britain, Eurasia, which is Europe and the Near East, and Eastasia, which is the rest of Asia and …showed first 75 words of 475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 475 total…control. This brings me back to the question of globalisation. It is all very well putting safety nets in place in stable democracies such as we have in the Western world, but how can we let so much economic power be given to the Far Eastern countries, such as Indonesia, which have very unstable governmental systems? The Indonesian stock market is very important in world economics, and the government was, until recently, a single-party dictatorship.