All that Big Brother talk has ‘1984’ sales spiking- MSN Money.

Even though many people consider Orwell’s vision paranoid, it turned out that the British spy agency MI5 had tracked the writer from 1929 until he died in 1950. 

President Barack Obama on Friday defended the NSA program, saying he believes the government had “struck the right balance.” But pointing to the threat of war or terrorism as a justification for spying concerned Orwell. 

“He could see that war and defeating an enemy could be used as a reason for increasing political surveillance,” Shelden said. “You were fighting a never-ending war that gave you a never-ending excuse for looking into people’s lives.” That sounds as much like today’s real world as the fictional one Orwell was conjuring in 1949.

As unconnected as they seem, I swear those three paragraphs came one after another.