Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Orwell would laugh

It's interesting the things you start to assume about people when you try to totally devote yourself to something outside the norm and make it your life. A couple days ago I wrote an English essay drawing heavily from George Orwell's 1984 without really specifying all the things that I took from it. The only real problems my group had with it was that they didn't know most of the references, and in fact one had never heard of 1984. I had thought that everyone alive knew about 1984. But then again, three years ago I myself had never heard about it.

It seems I don't have a proper guage of my knowledge. Now that I reflect on it the only environment I view the extent of my knowledge and ability in is a specified acedemic field, and one where I regularly see those who are most involved. Considering that less than three years ago I was a completely different person, I wonder just what I have done to myself as far as identity is. Have I really managed to change myself that much? I wish I had some way to tell.

But perhaps most importantly, there are people that have not heard of 1984. I thought it had become a figure of speech by now, didn't it?

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