1984 and social media

People are always watching, there is someone we don’t realize who watches us: what we are doing, saying or pretending. If we use our memory, we have been witnessing things that are not meant for us, but we were there. We may be stalking or just there, but we know what we saw…

Social media has made it easy to watch people’s lives, it made it easy to stalk whomever you want. And not that we are taking their information away from them or illegally but it is there, feed by themselves. By us. We are being watched not by accident, but because we want others to know about ourselves.

George Orwell’s novel 1984 shows us what happens when we feed on information that may empower us to control others in ways we want it. If governments decide to change history, to forget important things and only publish what people wants and what needs. Would we be willing to let other people decide our future? To access our information and decide what to do with it?

If we believe in free-will then we ought to dedcide what is best for ourselves and not to others. Socrates said: «know thyself» so we can be able to control what is around us, I mean, we can decide how we react and do because we know who we are and what we aren’t. To be free is to live knowinig what we want in life and search for it until we find it. That is why we need to start thinking. To let other people decide about our lives and control them is to give our capacity to another who doesn’t deserve it.

1984 is a book about the importance of self-discovery, to know wee have value and we are worth fighting for. We can change things and society can be better if we only accept our value and work on it every day: to be with people that make us feel good obout ourselves, that are true to who we are and help us to be better each day.