Monday, April 20, 2009

America's 1984

"On Thursday the spirit of George Orwell visited America, three times."

A chilling essay in Harper's .

2 comments:

Fugu said...

Ugh. That really does read like some Orwellian freak-fest.

Mr. Pony said...

OMG! I KNEW I had a copy of that movie!

Nice article. The fact that we built a 'Room 101' is chilling, and just the tiniest bit awesome (I mean, if we're going to torture people, be may as well do it right).

Point two is a little bit silly, though.