Nineteen Eighty-Four

     I am listening to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.  I had never read it before.  I think it should be more like Two Thousand-Seven or something to that effect.  I recently reading The End to America; Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf, which is not fiction.  I am very disturbed about the torture of Guantanamo prisoners.  They are still being tortured, even under Obama.  At least McCain, having been tortured, stood strong against torture and always has in the U.S. Senate.
     Big Brother, although an extreme concept, is slightly true today.  I think the character Goldman, the good leader being Jewish, is interesting.  A lot of books today like Hunger Games which was made into the movie, are taking from George Orwell's famous book which I am reading, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  I realize that that year which many of us lived through was not an especially bad one.  I was living in L.A. with my husband and baby, working hard and having a good life.
     I hope that for the sake of my sons and future generations and the youth of today that America stays free, although this book takes place in England.  The U.S. is a great country and I honor The Constitution.  I honor the president, whoever he may be, as my president.  I honor the military, soldiers living or dead, and veterans.  
     I hope that the conspiracy theories that some have which are scary are not entirely true.  I hope that this stays a free nation with the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."  I hope that racism, poverty and war will one day end, but that is a far cry I know.  Perhaps some day a golden age will come and the lion will lie down with the lamb, and man and woman will live as brothers and sisters.  Like Melanie's song, Candles in the Rain, in which she says "Meher Baba lives again.  Man shall live as brothers, lay it down again, lay it down, lay it down, lay it down again."