Ron Green
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:09 PM
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It's not 1984, folks, it's Brave New World. |
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Despite a considerable amount of Newspeak from the Telescreen, I suggest that we're looking at a Huxleyan world rather than an Orwellian one. Ashcroft's Nazis won't lock us up in camps; the beloved free market will keep plying us with cheap gasoline, Hollywood blockbusters and curly fries. Like the frog in the lukewarm pot, we'll continue to sit in place while the water heats up.
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:12 PM
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1. I wish I was an epsilon I always wanted to be an epsilon |
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they are smarter than gammas...curly fries...mmmm...soma.
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:13 PM
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2. Not a chance; they're much too scared of sex |
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It's 1984, so drink your Victory Gin and love Big Brother.
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:16 PM
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3. Of course Orwell's Big Brother was a fearsome totality; |
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ours is a smiling clown, or a gum-chewing bimbo.
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:24 PM
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6. but the Victory cigarettes now have an $.80 tax on them. |
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"Looks like meat. Could be meat. Maybe not meat. Double-plus-good."
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:21 PM
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4. our version of soma.... |
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:24 PM
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Then it would be our duty to have lots of gratutious sex :evilgrin:
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Wed Nov-03-04 10:25 PM
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7. Sinclair Lewis "It can't happen here." |
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It has happened, and we'd better stay organized for the fight of our lives.
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