Monday, November 24, 2008

1984


War is peace

Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength

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brad4d said...

. . so . to allow how wrong he was inspire HOPE . . evolutionary concepts emote . .

November 25, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Macht's gar nichts! said...

Hmmm, I dunno...Maybe Orwell only got the date wrong.

People at large seem to be OK with ignorance. As long as the beer's cold, or whatever is their pleasure.

I would like to think that Jay(Leno)walking is staged. But I keep running into people who show me via conversation that it's...plausible.

Look at the way our elected Federal(U.S.) representatives eroded the Constitution, over and over the past eight years, handing more and more over to Bush Inc. People tend to see the Constitution in terms of their own rights only, not realizing that when balance of power is tipped by playing with all those boring Articles relating to how government works, that the stage is being set for totalitarianism. I can only hope that people will start PAYING ATTENTION here and it may take some real adversity to get their attention. Anybody for some warm beer?
And while we may not have been convinced that Freedom Is Slavery, we apparently are easily persuaded that Addiction Is Freedom. The other day I was regaling someone with 40-45 year old ad jingle tunes...I realized that most of them were for cigarettes and booze!

'Tijuana Smalls...they're new baby, for you baby, you know who you are....it's a little cigar...'

Which doesn't even make sense, but I'm sure sold a lot of people on an alternative nicotine delivery device.
Remember all the recent political ads;some of the 'positive' ones used the same techniques! Or was I just suffering from saturation? Point being, we can be sold on Big Ideas just like we're sold on drugs. If it didn't work, why would they keep doing it?

I think, in the end, all we can do is refuse to be distracted. Whadda ya think?

Ah, but then...

December 19, 2008 at 8:44 PM

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