The one thing "1984" missed

[Robin Landseadel]

Huh?
On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:32 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> 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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