well Bush 41 promised a New World Order, and Prestdo they have managed to deliver an Orwellian - Farenheit 451 type of World, where ever single thing about anybody can pretty much be traced, recorded, scrutinized. Every last little email on the internet, what websites you been too.
Complete phone records, video camera's everywhere, your cellphone GPS can track your every move. on ad infinitum.
Thus from one perspective, Bush has the calm demeanor of The Master of his domain, or the quiet certaintude of the train conductor who has the train running on a schedule and hitting all of the stops right on sequence. Have a Bush have a Clinton have a Bush, have a Clinton. War with EurAsia... War with EastAsia..... War with EurAsia..... War with East Asia.
written in 1948 and published in 1949. It is the story of the life of the intellectual Winston Smith, his job in the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation by the totalitarian government of Oceania, the country in which he lives
.....The adjective "Orwellian" describes actions and organizations characteristic of Oceania, the totalitarian society depicted in the novel, and the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" refers to invasive surveillance.
.....Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth in its Records Department. There he revises official historical records to match The Party's contemporary version of the past. The Party's present needs require continual revision of past events so that they reflect the current shifts of The Party's orthodox view of history. Winston Smith's job tasks are perpetual; he re-writes the official record, and re-touches official photographs to remove people officially rendered unpersons. The original (true and accurate) document is dropped into a "memory hole" leading to an incinerator.
....The world is controlled by three functionally similar totalitarian superstates engaged in perpetual war with each other:
Oceania (ideology: Ingsoc or English Socialism)
Eurasia (ideology: Neo-Bolshevism)
Eastasia (ideology: Obliteration of the self, usually rendered as "Death worship").
So ... uummmm... What exactly is he not getting? -g-
....sorry just engaged in a little cynical ruminating tonight I Guess.
John |
