User blog comment:Mmandator/Dystopia/@comment-4099220-20120219180631

I'd rather live in the deceptive paradise of BNW. The thought of a real-life organization like the Thought Police terrifies me and the idea of an oppressed, secluded, no-allies society does the same. One's own children would sell their parents out to the Thought Police. Just think. No one leaves Room 101. Ever (well save for my story :P). In 1984 there is no such thing as privacy and nothing is your own as it belongs to the Party. Oceana is constantly at war with Eastasia and Eurasia. Literature is censored and re-written beyond recognition to the point of everything being propoganda in support of Big Brother. Art is nonexistant. Music is hardly entertainment as it is made by one "kaleidoscope" and totally monotonous and unchanging. There is no illusion of paradise in 1984. It's all just grin-and-bear-it-and-hope-we-don't-get-vaporized.