Wrong wrong wrong you are! A world like 1984 is completely possible and parts of the book are so similar to the way the United States is headed that its scary.The belief that it cant happen is exactly the kind of attitude that lets it happen.The Jews in poland never would have believed that anyone would try to exterminate them, but it did happen.You should also read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin which was written before 1984.
Let the government put cameras everywhere like they are doing now.Turn in your guns and weapons of resistance/ empowerment. Agree to an electronic national ID card.Give the government broader powers of surveillance and the ability to try suspects in secret courts. See what happens to your freedom then. They don't even need a warrant to search your home anymore, thanks to the "Patriot" Act. You don't seem to know much about human nature, my friend. The hunger for power over others is all-consuming, for some people.
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."
--Hitler's Secret Conversations, trans. Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens (New York: Signet Books, 1961) 403
