They're The Same Picture

Yeah, my favorite part of 1984 was the part where Winston publicly announced his feelings about the government using memes and then nothing happened to him.

Theres a gigantic difference!

1 controls everything because they feel you deserve to be controlled
1 controls you because they feel they need to protect you from yourself and they know whats best

I forget which is which..

Well, to be fair. If you have an opinion that the government disagrees with you're not literally tortured and then executed.

1948 > 48 ~ 84 = 1984.

It was about modern society when it was written.