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That is 100% not the message.
by pmcginn 10y ago
That is 100% not the message.
- eternalban 10y agoWhat is the message then? How does the "hero" end up in 1984? Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me. Tell me it ain't so, pmcginn.
- aoeu345 10y agoThat one sentence is not the message, the message is An extreme totalitarian surveillance state will eventually converge to punishing acts like extra marital sex or keeping a diary with personalized torture until victims are broken beyond any thought of hostility towards their authority figures. Which is a damn good thing for children to think about. People really are that bad, so hold your freedoms close.
- Create 10y agooh dearism http://www.dw.com/en/david-petraeus-the-washington-elite-have-lost-touch-with-a-lot-of-america/a-36415543 http://www.dw.com/en/david-petraeus-the-washington-elite-hav...
- eternalban 10y agoHorses for courses. I'll read Lord of The Rings to my kids and let thoughts of Frodo give them the courage and the hope, and I suppose you can terrorize your kids by reading them about "rat face cages" and betrayals and fear culminating in a sit down in Chestnut Tree cafe drinking Victory Gin.
- kafkaesq 10y agoWhat is the message then? It's right there in The Party's second-favorite slogan: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. The task of finding similarities to current events in the world (and the U.S. in particular, this past year) is left as an exercise for the reader.