Is President Obama making George Orwell's "1984" a reality? (Vanity)

Friday, April 29, 2011

[MinorityRepublican]

War is Peace. Ignorance is Bliss.

[Texas Eagle]

Get back to me when the news media represents a Ministry Of Truth style arm of the government where.......uhhhhhh.........ruh-roh.

[Borges]

He was describing an existing condition in the Europe of his time. The late 19th century saw everything in terms of evolutionary development and not just biological. Everything was getting bigger and better and the Church did not have the sway that it had in the pre-Industrial age. It’s not his fault that his ideas were co-opted. He was an imaginative writer and is not to be taken at completely face value.

[Texas Eagle]

The telescreen was giving forth an ear-splitting whistle which continued on the same note for thirty seconds. It was nought seven fifteen, getting-up time for office workers. Winston wrenched his body out of bed -- naked, for a member of the Outer Party received only 3,000 clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pyjamas was 600 -- and seized a dingy singlet and a pair of shorts that were lying across a chair. The Physical Jerks would begin in three minutes.

'Thirty to forty group!' yapped a piercing female voice. 'Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!'

Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.

'Arms bending and stretching!' she rapped out. 'Take your time by me. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! ...'

[Texas Eagle]

Text of: 1984 by George Orwell