1984 v. 2017 by sonomi https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c en-us 2017-11-06 21:10:41 UTC 2017-11-08 07:23:25 UTC hello@padlet.com 1984 Manipulation v. 2017 sonomigap https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c/wish/204130183 “[...] the Records Department,[...] whose primary job was [...] to supply the citizens of Oceania [...] with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment [...]” (Orwell 42-43).
"[...]this strategy of lying is to Donald Trump’s seeming strategy of lying: Tell a lie bigger than people think a lie can be, thereby forcing their brains to seek truth in it, or vest some faith in it, even after no proof can be found" (Blow).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/opinion/trump-isnt-hitler-but-the-lying.html]]> 2017-11-06 21:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c/wish/204130183 1984 Social Class v. 2017 sonomigap https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c/wish/204131945 "[...] but no attempt was made to indoctrinate [proles] with the
ideology of the Party. It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which
could be appealed to whenever it was necessary[...] They were beneath suspicion. As the Party slogan put it: ’Proles and animals are free.’" (Orwell 71-72).
"In his inaugural address, Trump stated that “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer… Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities… students deprived of knowledge…their success will be our success.”
If this was his pledge, why is he cutting support from the very programs which sustain these ends" (Ben-Meir)?
https://www.theglobalist.com/donald-trump-budget-cuts-united-states-poverty/

]]> 2017-11-06 21:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c/wish/204131945 Electronic Intrusion 19griffithparis https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c/wish/204133700 -Today, the National Security Agency can tap into Facebook profiles as well as google searches and collecting data on phone calls we make
-in Orwell's 1984, a majority of Oceania's public and private places have tv screens that broadcast government propaganda and also spy on the private lives of citizens, like security cameras following them around.
-"Day and night the tele-
screens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations" (Orwell 43).]]> 2017-11-06 21:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sonomigap/oe4mlt9cab5c/wish/204133700