Big Brother Couldn't Forsee the Big C - Consumerism


	Big Brother Couldn't Forsee the Big C - Consumerism

liotropi

8-9-2007 5:27 AM

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one of my favorite authors

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5d71e185-0f17-4c6a-9a4d-5ed972a050aa/35B3DBF2-3894-4DEC-A6AE-1269F8E219D4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.empathicparenting.org/bigbrother.html" href="http://www.empathicparenting.org/bigbrother.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.empathicparenting.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.empathicparenting.org/bigbrother.html"><P>In a way, everything George Orwell predicted in the novel Nineteen 
          Eighty-Four has come true. In a way, nothing he predicted has come true</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.empathicparenting.org/bigbrother.html"><P>. ("Doublethink", he wrote, means the power of holding two 
          contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both 
          of them." The power to doublethink has come triumphantly true.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.empathicparenting.org/bigbrother.html"><P>Maybe. But what about Pac-Man? Orwell reckoned without capitalism's 
          confounding capacity to avoid confrontation by merchandising it. Capitalism, 
          like Pac-Man, can munch up anything. Control and conformism, the two 
          Orwellian bugaboos, reckoned without behavioural psychology, which teaches 
          that the most effective form of control is achieved by rewarding the 
          organism, not by punishing it. Capitalism understands behavioursim as 
          totalitarianism does not. In totalitarian countries, there are coups 
          and revolutions and liberation movements. In capitalist countries, there 
          are sales.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.empathicparenting.org/bigbrother.html">"whoever 
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