Scary Dystopian Novels to Read in the Night

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Recommended: 1984 and Brave New World have similar themes

Although in our contemporary Western society we are not blindly obedient supporters of our government or artificially produced humans of five different castes, there are similarities in the lives and culture of both 1984 and Brave New World that are becoming ever more prevalent in our society. With our military's constant war path with no prospect of stopping, our government's ever expanding control on matters of security and privacy, and the public's rapidly increasing search for relief and pseudo-happiness in the form of both illegal, but even more shocking, prescribed psychotropic drugs, demonstrate parallelisms between these nightmarish societies and that of our own that cannot be ignored.

To learn the truth behind America's military history, one must leave behind the typical history book and look for a much more focused piece of literature, or (for the sake of time) venture on the internet through government or other trustworthy websites. What will be discovered is that our military has been 'active' almost continuously since its inception, but shift the focus from the past to current times. After the nine/eleven attacks, the world was about to experience a new era of conquest and destructive change; The United States of America declared war on a political term, terrorism. George W. Bush said “Our war on terror begins,” in his address to congress after the attacks and with that the Global War on Terrorism commenced. Under the pretense of the war on terror, American military forces have become involved in eight different armed conflicts on two continents, all while in the time span of a little over twelve years. With over a quarter million dead, that is not the only nightmarish reality; with America in a war with terrorism, ...

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...rd our government and their inhumane push for power. Winston Smith believed that a good future lied with the eventual awareness of the most common members of the society; the same can be said for our society.

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Hagler, Frank. "Why The NDAA Bill Is Even Scarier Than You Thought." PolicyMic. N.p., 15 Dec. 2012.

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