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06-23-2004, 01:00 AM
We can easily relate Big Brother with Satalinism, which wasn't really comunism, because of the constant repetition of the "Revolution" aginst "capitalism", the english socialim, "the Party", and people against the system disapearing.<br>but it would be superficial to compare it only to Stalinism. We can realte it with all kinds of fascism. the first thing that comes to my mind is nazism. In Oceania they are constantly remining you of the enemy and how bad it is, they convert it into a monster and that is needed, because to keep power in that way it's needed to control the information and to have people scared. Fear is a way of manipulation and control.<br>Probably germans in the second world war thought of the judes as horrible rats and enemies of the State and the people, that was the way propaganda made them look. Now we think of germans as nazis, but not all germans were nazis and the nazis were common people, the neighbor, the carpinter, the teacher, the student, all manipulated by terror and hate.<br>Now the enemy is terrorism, arabs and muslims are bad people, they are evil and the state and people's enemy.....this is as fake as the idea of judes or people from eustasia to Nazism and Big Brother.<br>Another subjet in the book is the destructuion of the individual. that makes us think of "real socialism", everybody wearing the same, eating the same, etc. This is a wrong interpretation, Marx thought thar in comunism the individual would be able to grow in experiences, capabilities, intelectually, etc. Another thing to consider is if our freedom consists in liberty of consuming, are we free because we can choose between pepsi and coke, times and newsweek, republicans and democrats?<br>How far is USA form fascism? and think not more than Iraq with hussain<br>Information is power, as this book greatly ilustrates. Nowadays when economy is more powerfull than the State, the politicians can make many promeses but the fact is that they cann't do much, the are no longer politicians buy managers in a giant mall, if the politics not longer have the truth, then who makes the truth? The media, they create the truth, and sell it to us, and in this way something is truth as long as it is profitable.<br>