1984 and today's world

When I think about how 1984 relates to our world, the first thing that comes to mind is rights. In the novel, everyone and everything was watched and regulated and people have very little freedom or rights. In order to have any fun or do anything that wasn't totally approved of, people had to be very surreptitious. That is still an issue in our world. Although it maybe cryptic to most people in our country, other places around the world still struggle with this. For example, millions of women are castigated in middle eastern countries for showing their faces or bodies in public. They have to cede their individuality in order to fit in in their society. There are also still communist countries such as China and North Korea that deprecate people for saying anything bad about the government, just like in 1984. They also use perfidy to brainwash the citizens, making them think that the government is always right. Of course, this creates many malcontent people, but they have no choice but to obey for fear of being punished. It seems for now, there is an indefinite moratorium on worldwide freedom.