>>>Ever read "1984"?
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>>Oh yes! :)
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>The reason I mention this, of course, is because in that story, they did this kind of stuff all the time. Except that instead of "Secretary of Defense", the title was "Minister of Peace", IIRC. His main function, of course, was to wage war.
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>Plus a few other ministers whose titles I don't remember, but equally contradictory to what they actually did.
Euphomisms of this kind are "double plus ungood"!
Incidentally:
I graduated in 1984 and one of my final year's essays, on the impact of technology, was (my own idea) "Orwell or All's well - to what extent, in nineteen eighty-four, are we living in '1984'?".
It surprised me just how similar the world was - but different. Now in 2006, Airstrip 1 is the most surveilled country in ythe world, with more CCTV cameras on the street, and a larger DNA database, than the rest of Europe together.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
