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Amusing ourselves to death: Aldous Huxley vs. George Orwell
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DHS & Walmart: ensuring the ‘safety and security of our nation’
So, for whatever reason, DHS is asking Walmart shoppers to be alert for terrorism, or, as the DHS explains the partnership on their website, “to help the American public play an active role in ensuring...
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Are we more ‘Brave New World’ or ‘1984’ today?
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would...
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Chris Hedges argues that both Huxley and Orwell were right
Chris Hedges tells The Progressive in an interview that both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were on to something, and their dystopic visions are neither far fetched nor incompatible: “I used to...
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The War on Terror and the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Click for larger image: “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in...
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Your afternoon chuckle: CNN GOP debate Arizona / Two Minutes Hate
I did lol: source: topherchris
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Tennessee Tea Party goes Full Metal Orwell
Rewriting history to suit your personal comfort level is doubleplusgood. Charles Johnson reports that Teabaggers in Tennessee are demanding that school textbooks leave out America’s history of slavery:...
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Romney pollster: We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by...
If you appreciated the ideas in Orwell’s 1984, you’re going to love the Romney campaign. Facts are merely historical items to be rewritten by the Mitt-istry of Truth, to send through the pneumatic...
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Sequestration and defense spending: the class war continues
via truth-has-a-liberal-bias “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past...
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