Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1984. Show all posts
June 8, 2010
Orwellian Tax Collection Commercial
May 2010 - This is an ad that's currently running in Pennsylvania.
June 5, 2010
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Description from Wikipedia:
Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by Robert Kane Pappas. It examines the current and past relationships between the media, the US government and corporations, analyzing the possible consequences of the concentration of media ownership. Making references to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the film argues that reality has met and in some ways exceeded Orwell's expectations about a society dominated by thought control, which is made possible by the media. According to the film, the mass media no longer report news, but manage it, deciding what makes the headlines and what is conveniently ignored, thus ultimately defining the framework upon which most other issues are discussed by the society.Running time: 84 minutes.
June 4, 2010
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Or, as Postman puts it:
... [George] Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. [Aldous] Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.Author's foreword: http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/post_1.html
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
Amusing Ourselves to Death on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Conspiracy Theory w/ Jesse Ventura: "Big Brother"
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