Recommended read --2024, by Ted RALL:
Comic Books
Tuesday 14 August 2001
Red Hour Orgy
A Column about Comics by Philip Shropshire
(Special to Locus Online)
2024, written and drawn by Ted Rall (NBM Publishing, May 2001)
Orwell for Beginners, written by David Smith, illustrated by Michael Mosher (Writers & Readers, Feb. 2000)
And a follow-up about the A.I. websites vs. the film
"No. Yes. Whatever."
-Words of wisdom from Ted Rall's Winston
"Scattered about the city were the three organs of the corporate-government complex: Independent technologies, which owned all the technology companies and licensed new ones. Populist Party headquarters which concerned itself with stifling independent thought. Freedom media enterprises, a multinational that owned and censored the press, radio and web tv."
-Ted Rall's replacements for the Ministries of Truth, Love, Information and Plenty in his new book 2024
Surf the net and you'll be relentlessly buffeted by ideas from George Orwell's 1984. It's an important and still relevant book because it gives you a handy dictionary of how the state or any big institution perpetuates lies and falsehoods. Yet how would the Orwellian icons of Ingsoc, Big Brother and the Two Minute Hate look when reinterpreted by today's reality of the consumer society, the networked world and multinationals more powerful than nations?
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My own Orwellian pastiche:
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