Book learning: Nation edges closer to Orwellian dystopia

With literally every hour that passes, the book George Orwell wrote, “1984,” becomes the story of our times.

Who ever would have thought that this book, a 1949 critique of the rapidly expanding Soviet Empire’s control that Orwell saw coming on the world stage, would correlate to life as we know it today?

“The most banned book of all time in America” is being lived out on the streets of one big city after another in the United States. It is with great sadness that we say, “Welcome back, ‘1984’; it is to our shame that we are permitting this, but you predicted it quite well.”

The book shows the conflict between total control and individual freedom.

Winston, the main character, works for the government, rewriting historical documents to match current governmental desires by changing event