Time to Turn Orwell Into Fiction Again
Commentary
Of all the creepy things that totalitarian regimes do, perhaps none is more creepy than their habit of encouraging children to inform on their parents to the regime.
Anyone who has read “1984,” will remember the pathetic Tom Parsons who winds up next to Winston Smith in The Ministry of Truth (read: prison) after his young daughter reports that he had muttered “Down with Big Brother” in his sleep.
Parsons, besotted with the regime, is actually proud of his daughter’s initiative: “She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?”…