The one thing "1984" missed

[Fiona Shnapple]

Not like you, Robin, to post this kind of rubbish. The author is obviously
a member of the brave mew thought police, journalists who do the job
Winston and Syme and Julia were doing in 1984, working for BB, now, Big
Gov.Com, including, of course, re-writing and erasing the past, making
state fiction, denigrating the language, the narrative, claiming, through
mass production of propaganda, the Truth. As P warns in his Foreword, 1984
is abused by Big Gov.Com. No, we don't live in a dystopian totalitarian
state, but are we to accept that the big tech-science police are not Big
Bother, Twin of Big Gov, that Snowden, defended here, attacked there, is
merely Goldstein?

On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> From today's "Salon":
>
> "Orwell, you should be living at this hour.
> A medium ranking, 30 something year old man works on programmes concerned
> with gathering global information and using it in the interests of the
> state. Although he is an agency insider and enjoys the modest state
> privileges that derive from that, he comes to the conclusion that ‘The
> People’, in whose name he does these things, are not its beneficiaries but
> its victims, and that for all its talk of freedom and truth the state is
> intent on deceiving them. The man wants to admit his rebellious thoughts
> and reveal the deception but knows that by doing so he is going to make the
> rest of his life difficult, not to say short, and there will be no going
> back. He does it all the same. He has no accomplices, except his
> girlfriend. The world has yet to decide what will happen to him."
>
>
>
> http://www.salon.com/2013/12/17/orwell_ed_snowden_saga_
> shows_the_one_thing_1984_missed_partner/-
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