COMMENT Looking at recent events one can't help but ask the question: Are we living in the much touted and lofty 1Malaysian dream, or in the deep dank pits of an Orwellian nightmare?

I well remember ‘1984', having dog-eared my copy of it - the dystopian novel written by George Orwell of a fictional future, of a society under the thumb of an oligarchy, a dictatorship which imposes totalitarian surveillance and mind control over its people.