politics , religion , aliens ,AI ... well might as well have fun with them, At least there entertainment for Art , music ,comics ,tv shows & movies. etc etc.

1984,V for Vendetta ,Sistine Chapel ,David ,Star Wars, Star Trek ,Matric.

I could go on & on.

though I have a hard time following the philosophy at times.

I like the philosophy .

Don't take life to seriously ,No one gets out a live. 

I have to say, you have a very original mind. Who else would put George Orwell, Alan Moore, Michelangelo, George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, and the Wachowski's all in one list. :) As for Orwell... Well, Shane, it's impossible to know what his intent was -- unless we can find something he wrote on the subject. But I always saw the book as very much in the tradition of other dystopias (or satirical utopias), beginning with Thomas Moore's "Utopia" and going on with Jonathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and Samuel Butler's "Erewhon", which, while there are varying interpretations, are generally taken as criticisms of the political and cultural circumstances of the day dressed up as mythic fiction. Orwell wasn't a sci-fi writer, so I don't imagine him even trying to predict the future, and despite it being a largely gloomy book, there are elements of hilarity and humor that point to satire, in my mind at least.

The genre today tends to follow the tradition, more or less. Take as an example, Margaret Atwoods "Handmaid's Tale".  The future she describes isn't one that she expects to come about. It's more that she's examining the current (or then current) legal/political environment and taking the worst parts to their not-quite logical (slippery slope) conclusions. I believe this about Orwell's work as well mainly because the surveillance of citizens, by the Germans, the Soviets, and the of course the British was extremely evolved and involved. All they lacked was the technology. The fact that he was going to title the book "1948" is part of why I think it was originally meant to be a satirical take on that very year. (Ironic that his publishers insisted on changing the title to something less... obvious and provocative). But of course, that's just how I see the book, and I'm hardly an authority on the subject. :)

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