Word: orwellianisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most people would agree that Harvard is not an Orwellian government. The card key system can hardly trace an undergraduate's every move. Still, civil libertarians are raising questions about how the College is intending to use the system records...
First, I saw "Sneakers," the new Sidney Poitier-Robert Redford film about Orwellian government use of technology capable of unearthing just about any iota of informations it wants on individual citizens...
...story goes--falsely, cynically, cruelly. The U.S. military transfers the repatriates to the famously brutal Haitian military, which photographs and fingerprints each refugee beneath an Orwellian "Welcome to Haiti" sign. Perhaps the Bush administration believes that the Cedras regime will use the prints and photos to make invitations for a "Welcome to Haiti" party for the repatriates. This belief would explain why the administration slowed the return of refugees--not to assuage human rights concerns, but to accommodate a Cedras regime which needed more time to process bodies...
...customary to think of threats to privacy in Orwellian terms, with an all-seeing Big Brother government as the culprit. But lately the threat comes no less from private companies, private citizens -- and from our own imperfect notions of how to define which matters are properly kept confidential. The powers of government are fashioned under the pressure of society's own values and expectations. Lately those values have been in flux...
...behavioral level, it's the Orwellian Big Lie. "I did this, but it really doesn't matter -- I'm back." Or "It may have been bad, but it wasn't Dennis." Keep saying it, and they'll buy it. That's how narcissism operates. It doesn't say, "You are an unredeemable slime." It says, "You're special." And it permits them to somehow make...