In many ways, Orwell's view of the future has come true.
not live in a world dominated by Communist super-powers, there are many .
aspects of our society that are prophesied in the book. .
Take, for example, the three land masses used in Nineteen Eighty-Four. .
There is Oceania, which encompasses the Americas and Great Britain, .
Eurasia, which is Europe and the Near East, and Eastasia, which is the .
rest of Asia and Australia. These enormous blocks of land could now be .
said to exist, if not by borders, then by economic boundaries. The North .
America has free trade policies, as does the European union. These make .
North America and Europe the most powerful economic centres on Earth. .
However, the emergence of the Far Eastern economies shows that the world .
is slowly being divided into the lines that Orwell set. .
However, the more that we grow apart, the closer that we come together. .
The Far East is said to be, "Westernising", in that it is taking Western .
(i.e. Europe and the USA) ideas about economics, and putting them into .
practice. The success of this can be seen by how much fluctuations in, .
for example, the South Korean stock exchange affect the markets in the .
USA and Europe. .
This global integration means that we are heading down a dangerous road. .
Unlike Orwell's vision of a one-party dictatorship controlling hundreds .
of millions, we get instead the world being controlled by the stock .
markets, and fluctuations in currencies. This is extremely dangerous, as .
it means that huge multi-national financiers, such as Soros can make or .
break a countries economy. An example of this is the events of black .
Monday, when trading led by Soros" company effectively brought about the .
collapse of the Pound, and heralded the start of a long recession in the .
UK. There is too much power being put into the hands of men such as .
these, and un-scrupulous they can be too. For an example of this, one .
only has to look to Nick Leeson single-handedly bringing down one of .
