On Feb 15, 8:03 pm, Tian <tnhar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> bongblas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "It was a bright cold day in April," when I posted this, "and the
> > clocks were striking thirteen," and they still are.
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> > =========From the public archive=============
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> > Apr 19 2003, 5:41 am
>
> > The Dixie Chicks did not Glorify Big Brother.
>
> > "WAR IS PEACE"
> > --George Bush
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I had never heard of the "Dixie Chicks" until one of them
> > made an off the cuff remark about President Bush.
>
> I'm not sure I'm in that category, but I didn't buy anything
> of theirs until after that remark.
>
>
>
> > The next morning my telescreen turned itself on and I saw a
> > group of people jumping up and down on a pile of Dixie
> > Chicks CD's and chanting slogans of rage against the Chicks.
>
> > It was right off the pages of Orwell's "1984." The Two Minutes Hate
>
> > I don't think the ex Dixie Chicks fans would do something like that in
> > the privacy of their own back yard, with no T.V. cameras around. It
> > was definitely a signal created by the media mongers that if you don't
> > glorify Big Brother, your career will suffer - or perhaps end.
>
> The Bush administration is so clumsy about that. I like to point to
> a green leafy bush like the one on my front porch and say "I think
> of that as a harmless bush, and I think it's a good thing to have
> harmless bushes in your life."
>
> BTW: You can see my shrub at the top of this page:
>
> http://tian.greens.org/ShrubWithTian.html
>
>
>
> > Movie stars and singers are held in high respect and admiration by
> > their fans. Their fans want to look like them, be like them, and think
> > like them. He who controls the movie stars - controls the masses.
>
> I think of movie stars and the like as political figures. I thought
> of political figures (the ones with R or D behind thier names) as a
> separate category until I realized that they were so beholden to the
> status quo that they needed organic competition to bring our national
> debate into focus. Since then performances like the one from the
> Dixie Chicks at this years Grammys have literally brought tears to
> my eys.
>
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>
> > >====== From the novel: "Nineteen Eighty-four" =====
>
> > "In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping
> > up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their
> > voices...The little sandy-haired woman had turned bright pink, and her
> > mouth was opening and shutting like that of a landed fish.
>
> > ...The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out "Swine!
> > Swine! Swine" and suddenly picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and
> > flung it at the screen. ...A hideous ecstasy of fear and
> > vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a
> > sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the group of people like an
> > electric current, turning one even against one's will into a
> > grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage one felt was an
> > abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object
> > to another like the flame of a blowlamp..."
>
> I'd forgotten that...
>
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