1984 to take stage?

A story of a man who works at the Ministry of Truth falsifying war news and promoting Big Brother took the stage last Thursday on Broadway.

Author George Orwell depicts a government in total control but much rather are out of control by manufacturing its own facts, demanding total obedience and demonizing foreign enemies.

The 1984 book sales have increased over 10,000 percent since President Donald Trump's victory for the White House.

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway defended incorrect claims as “alternative facts.” It instantly drew comparisons to Orwell’s terms “doublethink” and “newspeak” and to the type of government manipulation the author wrote about nearly 70 years ago.

Orwell, the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, seemed to predict the government’s mass surveillance programs and data mining in the age of Facebook and WikiLeaks