Paranoia

I don't understand why someone in this class would feel paranoid. What Tim's trying to do is make us think outside of the little boxes we all live in, to think of how we're influenced and by how much. I don't think he's suggesting that our lives are just like Winston's, but that to some degree they may be similar. He's trying to make us aware of how easily the majority can be manipulated so that we always question authority before just accepting it.
If this was a ploy to get us to relate to Winston's situation, I think it had the desired affect.
Now... on to the comment that I have on 1984. So, after Winston's realization that he and Julia have suppressed their feelings for so long (because of BB) that they are incapable of human emotion, he and Julia talk about how when they are captured and tortured nothing could get in the way of their love. This is not even believable; they'd totally sell each other out to try to save themselves... they don't even know what love is! What do you think will happen next??... Now that they have been captured.
Will they be tortured? Will they come back briefly as Rutherford had?
I don't think they stand a chance against the thought police; they've already been brainwashed to the core, they'd be easy to break in interrogations. In other words... they're doomed!