Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

I picked up my old college book, 1984. Strange how relevant the text is when comparing it to corporations and the neo-despotic America. Tomorrow I intend to distribute a bunch of books I'm no longer using anymore at work....I'm thinking of dumping 1984 right on the free magazine area. Ironically, the log reviewers sit just a few seats nearby. After reading the novel, I contemplating that someone in my company must have read 1984 and used it as a MODEL for building our IT infrastructure, (along with the SEC). Now, was Orwell that prescient for his time or was someone inspired by the dystopic of Oceania to recreate it in the work environment? Audit at work is completely synonymous with 1984, where we're encouraged to tell on each other. It seems that the Communist Fever and the Salem Witch Trials that sparked similar comparisons are something of human nature. The killer points in the novel of controlling people by fear and through the mind are some of the most profound statements. Not only did Orwell remark about such things but Machiavelli in the Prince also supported such ideologies (which many MBA students seem to revere)