The road to 1984

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Well I think it's a perverse calling it the Department of Defense considering it's just launched a pre-emptive strike on a relatively poor and defenseless nation. He isn't just "including [the] nation's military into something
called the Department of Defense"; he's aptly calling it a "war-making apparatus." Maybe you're the one on the verge of trivializing things here.  

 
Paulwrote:
Very much so, David. Pynchon's real-life examples of Orwellian
Doublethink are as lame as anything in the Introduction. How could any
reasonable person object to including a nation's military into something
called the Department of Defense?

Seems to me Pynchon is on the verge of trivializing Orwell's nightmare
creation. For Orwell doublethink is a metaphor for perversity and
horror, not PR or spin.

P.




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