by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In George Orwell's allegorical novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the picture of "Big Brother" appears constantly in the adoring media.
Perceived enemies are everywhere — supposedly plotting to undo the benevolent egalitarianism of Big Brother. Citizens assemble each morning to scream hatred for two minutes at pictures of the supposed public traitor Emmanuel Goldstein. The "Ministry of Truth" swears that the former official Goldstein is responsible for everything that goes wrong in Oceania.
In Orwell's Oceania, there is a compliant media that offers "Newspeak" — recycled government bulletins from the Ministry of Truth. "Doublethink" means you can believe at the same time in two opposite beliefs.
America is not Oceania, but some of this is beginning to sound a little too familiar.
We see Barack Obama's smile broadcast 24/7, in a fashion we have not seen previously of earlier presidents. A Newsweek editor referred to Obama as a "god." MSNBC's Chris Matthews claimed physical ecstasy when Obama speaks. A Washington Post reporter swooned over Obama's "chiseled pectorals."
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7 comments:
So how long do you think it will be before we have our first suicide bomber here in the good ole USA?
First Nazis, now Orwell references? You guys are pathetic little whiny babies. You lost. Try not to lose in the future. Just stop crying already.
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Don't forget it was your gal San Fran Nancy Pelosi (you know the one with the skin on her face stretched so tight it looks like it will crack) that started the whole Nazi crap. You whiney ass liberals can dish it out, but you sure can't take it.
That is the best article I've read in a long time.
I'm now glad that liberal teacher in the 10th grade made me read 1984, it has enabled me to recognize the work of Big Brother when Obama's henchmen open their mouths and begin to speak.
AntiChrist!!!
George Orwell was a very well informed member of a secret society. He wrote about the future of which he had knowledge. Remember, art imitates life. Life never imitates art.
Welcome to the Village, Number 6.
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