1984

I recently finished the book 1984 by George Orwell.

I'm probably the only person of my era that has just read this book. Almost everyone I've spoken to has read this book, and even more people have read Animal Farm.

I was in a meeting when our CEO recommended that everyone read this book. So naturally I went out on and purchased the book on my kindle and started reading.

And I could not put the book down. Every few minutes I had - which are not many by the way - I was in 1984.

It's one of those books where you're hoping for the happy ending that you know if just not going to come. So why continue to read.

Many of the books I've read almost always have a "happy ending" if not happy at least an expected ending.

What intrigued me most about 1984 was the very scary fact that such thinking can and actually does exist, and I want to think that the only reason such an economic system has not evolved in our world is precisely because of the reason laid out as "failures" in the book.

Morally speaking I think most people of our era would abhor such conditions, but we seem to not realize that we are creating everyday the means by which 1984 came about. Everyday we are allowing "Big Brother" into our lives a little more each day. Everyday we are openly sharing with "Big Brother" everything they need to know about us. Every  swipe of a card, every text message, every post, every tweet, every BLOG! opens us up to "Big Brother's" vision.

What are you sharing with Big Brother these days.