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To: JeffA who wrote (11022)7/9/2004 12:11:30 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Respond to of 90947
 
Keyword, buzz phrase, input, output, no thinking.

Precisely. As Orwell put it...

“just a noise, a quack-quack-quacking.”
Describing a fellow party member in the Ministry canteen who spoke ceaselessly in a mechanical stream of indistinguishable words -- 1984, 1949

“one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them.” -- "Politics and the English Language," 1946

;-)



To: JeffA who wrote (11022)7/9/2004 2:24:38 PM
From: Selectric II  Respond to of 90947
 
His thinkers = those who do his thinking. I wasn't implying that he thinks, although there might be something more than simple muscle reflex involved in the process of his forwarding material to his thinkers, then receiving and posting their propagandistic responses by wrote.


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