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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 02:11 AM Original message |
Revisiting Orwell’s 1984 in 2010: US Parallels, Mind-Control in Oceania |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 02:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. Doublethink: "Every major event since Bush's appointment by the supreme court |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:00 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. “Crimestop" |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 06:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. The United States exists in a state of perpetual war -- accepted as "normal" |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 02:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. Peacekeeping troops. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:19 AM Response to Original message |
3. This is why I find the "state capitalism" analysis very interesting. "Proles" exploited by Stalin |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 12:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Marcuse's "passive totalitarianism" |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. I went to an conference meeting in Dec. for academics "concerned about peace" |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. :>) |
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Gravel Democrat (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:54 AM Response to Original message |
6. Many consider 1984 to be a training manual rather than a warning |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. it's certainly a remarkably prescient novel. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. Than they've learned more from Stalin than they want to admit. |
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stillwaiting (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 06:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. Just started reading 1984 again yesterday. |
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Birthmark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:23 AM Response to Original message |
10. That might be the best thing you posted... |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
11. Here's the operating manual: |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. +1 freud's nephew... |
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Jeffersons Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. K&R |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. And, just like in "1984" most of the population willingly embrace their chains. K&R |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. Good observation |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. K&R. Nice to see that we are not the only people to have read his work. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
18. Why have overt repression when you have the Media to control people's minds? |
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profile this (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
20. Thank You |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:20 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. i hope she's reading 1984 concurrently? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
22. Sorry, I don't take anything from wsws seriously. |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:31 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Yes, a literary analysis from socialists is HIGHLY SUSPECT. BACK AWAY CAREFULLY. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:37 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. lol. back away, back away! all information must come from approved sources like the nyt, |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. So having a PhD makes you right every time? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:37 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. i don't care. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:39 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Yet you responded. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:51 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. And yet you are seemingly compelled to write that same statement time after time... |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:37 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I've written it before? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. lol. one of many: |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 04:40 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. One other time? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:31 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. So how many should we dig up to confirm that which only you deny? |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 09:16 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I'm not denying them. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Did you learn nothing from spanking that Nonsense received? |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:42 AM Response to Reply #22 |
31. +1,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:01 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. it's more credible than the new york times on weapons of mass destruction & |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:05 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Only in the dreams of wild eyed radicals |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. wsws was contradicting the wmd story when the times was hyping it. |
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