Word: orwellianisms
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...Orwellian beatification of Bush won’t change the reality that we are tripping on our superpower ego, and nobody will be there to catch us when we fall...
...mollified and production values are maintained is an ongoing struggle. For example, Wanted! In China, which News Corp. pitched as "legal education" in order to win approval from the Ministry of Public Security, is made in a police-run production house. The host, a Beijing cop, sounded too Orwellian at first. "We had to explain to him that he should sound caring about the people," says Hao Fang, who oversees the show for News Corp...
Saddam has infused Orwellian lies and indoctrination, co-opted Hitler’s racial vision into triumphant Pan-Arabism, and reified a leader-worship analogous to Stalin or Mao. Fortunately, Hussein’s domestic success has been shackled by resistance to an Iraqi national identity founded in the thriving tribalism of Iraq’s many Shiites and Kurds. Moreover, his continued defiance of United Nations resolutions has brought down heavy economic sanctions, which have drained Iraq of potential wealth, subsequently weakening his own economic power...
This question probably sounded more urgent before the advent of John Ashcroft and his charmingly Orwellian Total Information Awareness program, but it's still well worth asking. In Jennifer Government (Doubleday; 321 pages), Max Barry imagines a near future in which our lives are so dominated by our employers that we take their last names. Barry's hero, Hack Nike (see how it works?), is a low-level cubicle dweller who gets embroiled in a scheme to stage a series of killings as a promotional gimmick to sell sneakers: it's murder as advertising. Out to stop the plan...
...Liberals are agnostic on America’s right to survive,” she said. “They are willing to live in an Orwellian stasis—counseling restraint, putting [confrontation] off for another...