They're The Same Picture

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..

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.

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.