Thursday, January 24, 2008

Make up your own mind

This is a beautiful piece of 'mash up' work. The true meaning of the piece was not apparent despite having looked at it a few times. The book, 1984 written in 1949 by George Orwell tells an amazing story for a number of reasons, one among them, the ability of people to constantly overstate the potential horror of the immediate future, a very popular thing to do since the dawn of language as a means of communication. The story itself, is summarized like this:

1984 presents an imaginary future where a totalitarian state controls every aspect of life, even people's thoughts. The state is called Oceania and is ruled by a group known as the Party; its leader and dictator is Big Brother.

Here is a thought provoking quote:

"'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" Part 1, Chapter 3, pg. 37

Here is a concept from the book that it would appear the Clintons have at least perfected on themselves:

Doublethink: The practice of thought control necessary to be a good Party disciple. No Party member can ever admit that the Party might be wrong. However, sometimes reality shows something to the contrary. Through using doublethink, the Party member can deal with any problems or inconsistencies with the Party. Party members simply block all awareness of the Party's falsities from their mind and then, as another act of doublethink, they forget that they have even used doublethink.

The people who put this together clearly remembered how adept the Clinton team is of re-fabricating reality to best suit their purposes. Undoubtedly, the news fodder of the past week has been no surprise to them. It would be nice to see this video resurface now that this extremely accurate prediction has come to fruition.

Here is the comment on the video right off Youtube:

Make up your own mind. Decide for yourself who should be our next president. NOTE: This is a mashup of the famous Apple 1984 Super Bowl ad. Search for the original on YouTube.

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