www.prisonplanet.com/safe-in-our-cages.html
".......Not even George Orwell in his most febrile moments could have envisaged a world in which every citizen could be so thoroughly monitored every moment of the day, spied upon, eavesdropped, watched, tracked, followed by CCTV cameras, recorded and scrutinised. Our words and web searches, our messages and intimacies, are to be stored and made available to the police, the spooks, the local council – the local council! – and “other public bodies”...
AC Grayling. The Guardian. 27/8/08.
Analogies abound in relation to George Orwell and his prophetic works compared to current events and our future – Animal Farm, 1984, etc.
How about JRR Tolkien, for a change though? He was a devout Christian, and understood clearly the cancerous, corrupting, insidious nature of evil. Is The Lord of the Rings just a wonderful and enjoyable story? A folklore for the English people and nothing more, as he claimed?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnXQC0fbbf4
If Sauron - The Lord Of The Rings, was to build his great tower with the ever-watchful eye now, how would he do it? Would it be as obvious as the one of old in the book/film? Or would it instead consist of an invisible and highly secret series of high-tech projects, each masquerading as benign, gradually creeping up on us until we are all hopelessly ensnared?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubtOvpfY30I
Aragorn: "What do you fear, my lady?"
Éowyn: "A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them, and all chance of valour has gone beyond recall or desire."