Letters to the Editor
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So what is new?
So what is new? Ninenteen Eighty-Four is here already. George Orwell wrote his famous dystopia in 1948 to warn that is current trends continued, we would end up with a world at perpetual war with an ill-defined enemy in which the proles would be kept ignorant and rallied with patriotic slogans via a pervasive propaganda machine.
This is what we have now. You can run, but you can't hide. Even if you go to an oil-change place or an airport lounge the propaganda is pumped at you in every waking moment.
The irony is that Orwell saw his book as a warning of a future that all decent people would want to avoid. He never anticipated that political strategists like Rove would take Nineteen Eighty-Four and use it as a procedure manual.
It is no good whining about the commercial media. They are not your friends. They are the apparatus of control. They are the propaganda arm of the military industrial complex of which Eisenhower warned.
Resistance is useless. Admit it. You love Big Brother. Stop struggling and come to Jesus.