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LOGIN fi55WEIPID FILENAME edit 198I, Eirwellian Realities Today s we launch into the year 1984, we suddenly ourselves contemplating the accuracy of George vision, originally conceived in 1948 in his book, 1984. 01 wellian terms, Big Brother and Newspeak have become household words, often used with trepidation referring to the police state and its accompanying jargon ould, according to Orwell, completely stifle oughts and freedoms. Most of us would agree that ice state has yet to threaten or impose upon our stem of democracy. However, few of us perceive merous Orwellian intrusions upon individual rights and civil rties that have occurred over the last few decades. stance, how many of us really object to or even think out the presence of surveillance cameras in banks tores, and on city streets? There have been no protests to these routine invasions of privacy; we accept them as another fact of life. It is only after consideration of various facts and events of recent years that we begin to realize how quickly we are approaching realities of the 1984 that Orwell envisioned thirty-six years ago. In today ' s high-tech society, exciting possibilities abound. Many of us look forward to the day when hometech enables us to push buttons on a keyboard to conduct bank transactions, do shopping, make airline reservations, and order reading material, all in the comfort of our own homes! On the other hand, too many of us probably neglect to consider the perils of such a technologically advanced society. We might ask ourselves the question: Do we really want to leave an electronic record of our private lives on our home computers, making it all too convenient for Big Brother to gather any amount of information about us by simply tracing our hometech transactions? As David Wise pointed out in the Manchester Guardian: When information is consolidated and made easily and instantly available to those who govern, something new and more ominous is created. In this way, while computers obviously make life easier, they also provide government with a pool of information on its citizens, practically inviting government agencies into our living rooms and offices, and thus bestowing great power and control among such officials. Although we tend to disassociate ourselves from the kind of totalitarian state that Orwell depicted, if we look closely at cent history we discern gradual incursions into our civil ties that are eroding democracy, and with little or no resistance. For example, in Detroit, the T.V. cameras installed along the streets for surveillance during the 1980 Republican National Convention were never taken down and are now used by the police for their own crimefighting strategies. In addition, all over America, helicopters, further serving police purposes, answer police calls in most urban areas. As one aviation police officer from Michigan once stated, No one gets away from the helicopter. In government and industry, privacy is constantly invaded by secret observation booths, closed television ciuts, and personality and polygraph tests. As Sinclair Lewis once wrote in his book, It Can ' t Happen Here, If America becomes a police state, it will have been by gradual incursions into our historic liberties, rather than by some thunderclap of history like a coup. After all, we have had no dictators, no regime of colonels, but we have already given consent to precisely some of those controls — like the disintegration of privacy — that are among the first psychological, as well as technological, installations of totalitarian government. Today, in such a society of monitored banks, department store dress- ing rooms, and city streets, it is difficult, expecially as time wears on, to conceive of many places or forms of absolute privacy. Although many Americans are still undoubtedly ignorant of the factors leading us toward a police state in which personal freedom, civil liberty, and democracy, in general, would be but vague memories, George Orwell has at least stimulated some thought and subsequent apprehension about the dreary spects of a totalitarian future in our government. Had it not been for that apprehension inspired by Orwell ' s consiciousness-raising words, today, we might very well have found ourselves under the watchful eyes and iron fist of Big Brother. lend edit : LOGOUT We are indebted to Tim Keefe and Howard Levine, creators of The 1984 Calendar: An American History, an innovative and thoroughly researched work that proved to be an invaluable source for our writing on the subject of 1984. — Keri Casady and Annie Athon Art Work by Psych ' — Laura Carlson Events 15
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Top. James Taylor Above. Men at eophonic a vis New artists fro international boundaries brightened musical horizon while establishedd groups made renovations in style to commodate this new phenomenon. The concert series this year at the Greek represented the diversity of current popular music. Always a favorite with concertgoers because of its small size, the beautiful outdoor theater attracted first-rate formers to a city both proud of its own musical character and critical of comme melodiou sounds of Georg Jarreau — both performing under ski sold-out audiences. In September, Kenn Loggins and James Taylor, both veterans of numerous Greek shows, established the theater as a personal favorite which reflected in their performances. Saving the best for last, many agreed that the three most spectacular shows .ome a vita sold-o w -u and tape HBO Cable, inviti en criticism from concert-goers the new concert format. Gabrie ugust er nd othe conce ved tha flockin 16 Events
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