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In "Steven Jobs' Totalitarian Vision," James Surowiecki gives one of the finest examples of Monday morning quarterbacking I've ever seen.
I won't give you the whole "we're the guardians of the First Amendment" speech here--though I do recommend it for getting past the rope line at political events--but I do think that without the purifying influence of the press, the United States would devolve into a totalitarian police state within about 20 minutes.
The targets of their liquidation were different; but the totalitarian structure, police state, and militaristic expansionism in both systems were uncannily alike.
He then accused Brent and Yale of having "caved" in to the ethos of "historical correctness" governed by "revisionists who dismiss as cold war humbug the notion that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian country."
Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.
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