1984 Comparison: Part II
- The glorious successes of the Ninth Three-Year Plan ... meanwhile, you don't have razor blades to shave with.
-- Emails, newsletters, and memos that proclaim how great things are at [INSERT NAME OF COMPANY] ... meanwhile, you get a .5% raise every year, if you're lucky ... there's no room for advancement, the in-house "Training" isn't accredited (and therefore, meaningless) ... in other words, you don't feel the glorious successes [INSERT NAME OF COMPANY] is proclaiming.
-- Presidential Candidate X saying the economy has never been better ... meanwhile, you can't afford food or gas for your car ... and you're one of the lucky ones to live in America.
-- Any salesperson promising the world and delivering nothing.
-- The old Bait and Switch
-- Caveat Emptor
-- CNBC talking head trying to paint a positive picture during a stock market downturn
- War is Peace
-- Communism is our enemy; therefore, let's move our factories to their territory, so that they may become capitalists via osmosis.
- He who controls the present controls the past.
-- History is written by the winners.
-- Does anyone remember history anymore, besides historians and history buffs?
-- RetCons are commonplace in comic books and real life.
-- A politician could be caught on tape saying on thing, and will still deny it and get votes.
-- Emails, newsletters, and memos that proclaim how great things are at [INSERT NAME OF COMPANY] ... meanwhile, you get a .5% raise every year, if you're lucky ... there's no room for advancement, the in-house "Training" isn't accredited (and therefore, meaningless) ... in other words, you don't feel the glorious successes [INSERT NAME OF COMPANY] is proclaiming.
-- Presidential Candidate X saying the economy has never been better ... meanwhile, you can't afford food or gas for your car ... and you're one of the lucky ones to live in America.
-- Any salesperson promising the world and delivering nothing.
-- The old Bait and Switch
-- Caveat Emptor
-- CNBC talking head trying to paint a positive picture during a stock market downturn
- War is Peace
-- Communism is our enemy; therefore, let's move our factories to their territory, so that they may become capitalists via osmosis.
- He who controls the present controls the past.
-- History is written by the winners.
-- Does anyone remember history anymore, besides historians and history buffs?
-- RetCons are commonplace in comic books and real life.
-- A politician could be caught on tape saying on thing, and will still deny it and get votes.
Labels: 1984, caveat emptor, comparison, retcon, three-year plan, war is peace
posted by Skew | Wednesday, June 25, 2008
1 Comments:
1) I agree...food and gas are CRUSHING everyone, yet talking heads are telling me about how the housing market is coming back to normal, stock market is fine, and how a water-based car was created somewhere, like ANY of that is going to put gas back at $2.87/gallon for me ever again.
2) This whole global Walmart economy is SICK. China and the U.S. just wanted to make a buck- that was their only motivation all of those years! The rest was just pomp and circumstance.
3) History (every aspect, including relationships, sports, etc.) seems to be for specialists. Everyone is focused on "the future" ("things will get better") and people stuck in the present situation (Snapshot Joe).
MEANWHILE, someone like me who studies history realizes that nothing is new! All of our worries , problems, and world events have already happened (and don't really matter, sorry to break the news to the MEDIA), just with a different cast of characters. And even the stuff that DIDN'T happen exactly- it means NIL in the course of earth's geological history. The MEDIA and Joe Watercooler have no perspective.
1984 RULES. Goldstein's Book (although it may be fake) was right, of course.
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