An Orwellian Perception
“Don’t worry, the ‘Thought Police’ are with you.”
To bring stability, harmony, tranquility,
and hope for your offspring, fresh out of the fertility bank.
So be leery of persuasive genetic failures
who mate their genes for sexual gratification
to produce inferior genetic subhumans.
“For we are the chosen and are not to be manipulated”
by these mutant genes, which, like viruses, penetrate your heredity
and gobble up life at the trough without respect for the future
and will make you one of them—a cancer to the living chosen.
But we are here, and when you come to your senses,
you will agree to preserve the species here and hereafter.
“My presence is infinitesimal, and yet, I sacrifice willingly
prodo-genetics to ensure the survival of the species with prodigy.”
An Orwellian Conception
As long as they see what you assume they see, and they agree,
then that’ll be the reality we’ll assume you want to live in.
If this makes sense, then be at peace among friends.
You can sleep innocently; no one will mete out punishment.
The past can’t be erased, but we can mitigate the consequences.
There’ll be no misunderstanding unless you fail to define yourself;
without definition, we’d disagree, and that would be unfortunate.
Cooperate so others will live. Deep sleep is wonderful.
We (your brothers and sisters) are watching everywhere you tread
(there is no umbrella of protection for a protagonist).
Our duty and purpose is to ensure survival of our genes,
so follow the rules and be rewarded with peaceful sleep.
“I am a sojourner pilgrimaging in a foreign land.
When my name is drawn, I will step aside and let others go on.”
An Orwellian Explanation
Orwellian in nature, data-collecting agencies are necessary.
They keep adding information to the files created at someone’s request.
Everything gathered is retrieved, analyzed, and assessed,
so there’s no need for alarm. Live your lives as you see fit,
and maybe, at worst, a minor infraction discovery occurrence
and a penalty imposed—nothing unbearable: “a small price for forgiveness.”
Focus on the big picture, and be rest assured, there is purpose without flagrancy.
After all, we seek the same things: peace, prosperity, health, and a clear conscience.
And when glitches are found, they are expeditiously corrected by the agencies.
So always remember, information is vital. Continue to be an obligatory participant.
Exercise discipline for yourselves and the children. You are a generation of promise.
Individual sacrifice is honoured for the greater and common good of the entirety.
“Where shallow waters flow, there, I cross with many.
I journey as far as I’m living; faith will do the rest.”
We live in an Orwellian world
we are living
in an Orwellian 1984 world
and have been for decades
we are assaulted daily
by alternative realties
promoted by various politicians
designed to shut down
all rational thought
true Orwellian thought control
and now with the corona virus
massive surveillance
has become the norm
and when the crisis is over
the surveillance will continue
on one excuse after another
forever as Orwell’s nightmare
big brother ruling us all
comes true
based on the fear that the massive increase in social surveillance being deployed against the Corona virus will after the crisis is over continue forever under one excuse or another as the Orwellian big brother dictatorships around the world become permanent
Is the world shrinking into an Orwellian nightmare
Where we are controlled and no longer dare
To be different from others in this world
With what the Internet and Facebook says is what is held
And leaders who look to control us to take over this media
With Presidents taking to Twitter to feed it ever greedier
Kim Il Jong becomes Big Brother in a Stalinist shadow
Where he wants the world to finally to him bow.
© Paul Warren Poetry
More paper work to fill out about your personal business,
the taxman and bank tellers being more inquisitive,
you have no health insurance or car insurance on your vehicle,
the motor vehicle department and govt. watches like an eagle,
One day soon we'll become totally cashless,
just using our debit cards to purchase items on a daily basis,
the latest being how they want humans to be "chipped,"
with all our personal information since birth installed in it,
Drones are used to keep an eye on us,
cameras around cities and town and even on the bus,
robots being used in factories to replace humans beings,
take a look yourself because seeing is believing,
The latest technology used by doctors and their nurse,
anyway you look at it technology can be a blessing or an Orwellian curse.
2-7-17
Architects of time
We control your mind
As, robotic cameras
Watch, these Orwellian eyes
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