In his book “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” author George Orwell imagined a futuristic “INGSOC” or “English Socialism,” where the totalitarian regime controlled its population with constant video surveillance and ideological control. His imagining of that system included televisions that watch civilians, information control, historical revisionism, and logical tricks to make people accept lies as truth.
In China today, all of these systems are actually in place already under the Chinese Communist Party. But in a new communist push, the CCP is rolling out new forms of technology that will take surveillance and social control far beyond what Orwell could have imagined. We’ll discuss what’s now happening in China on this episode of Crossroads.
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Opening Transcript
Welcome to Crossroads. The writer George Orwell imagined a totalitarian society under what he called Eng Soc, that is English socialism and a society that’s controlled by, for example, constant surveillance and ideological control. Now, what’s interesting is that all of these systems, the tele screens that watch civilians, the information controls, the historical revisionism, the logical trips to make people accept lies as truth.
But all of these things are actually already in place, being practiced under the Chinese Communist Party in various forms. but in a new communist push, interestingly, the CCP is rolling out new forms of technology that will take surveillance and social control far beyond anything that Orwell could have imagined.
