If Big Brother is watching, no one is required to love him
1984, c. 2004
Doublespeak is alive and well.
by Deroy Murdock
National Review
08/11/04
George Orwell's novel 1984 depicted Earth as a totalitarian planet. Twenty years after that date, most of the world -- and America specifically -- has avoided his dystopian vision. Even if Big Brother is watching, no one is required to love him. And, at a minimum, he quadrennially faces the voters. Still, a new study finds Orwell's ghost haunting America's public dialogue. More accurately, the hollow and oxymoronic rhetoric the late British writer described thrives in the United States...
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200408110859.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Doublespeak is alive and well.
by Deroy Murdock
National Review
08/11/04
George Orwell's novel 1984 depicted Earth as a totalitarian planet. Twenty years after that date, most of the world -- and America specifically -- has avoided his dystopian vision. Even if Big Brother is watching, no one is required to love him. And, at a minimum, he quadrennially faces the voters. Still, a new study finds Orwell's ghost haunting America's public dialogue. More accurately, the hollow and oxymoronic rhetoric the late British writer described thrives in the United States...
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200408110859.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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