Similarities in governments

The biggest similarity I noticed between BWN and 1984's government was the immense amount of regulation. Both societies employ methods to ensure that they are regaurded as the supreme, all-knowing power. Both governments monitor all of the majority of media material, hampering with the facts by changing them to reflect the party's beliefs. In BWN, a lot of reading material was banned and in 1984 there is only one television/news source to attain information from. There is one universal figure head in both societies, Ford and Big Brother. Although, they are conditioned from birth in BNW to worship Ford and in 1984, the take over occured over time so a social evolution was still occuring. Also in both societies, intimate, emotional relationships are discouraged. In 1984, sex is not seen as enjoyable and in BNW it is not seen as important.