See if you can find yourself copies of "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up" - most especially the latter. both by John Brunner.

>I recently read:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303653X/ref=cm_pdp_rev_itm_img_2
>
>Although not a book about state control per se he still makes a great argument that we need not fear an Orwellian world but rather a Huxleyian one. Although Orwell was right about many things he was wrong, argues Postman, about needing to fear the state. It was Huxley who foresaw that it was the mind numbing apparatus of mass-media that would turn us all into sheep.
>
>But thanks for the recommendation - I have added it to the list.
>
>
>>>I don't know who Oceania
>>
>>My recommendation for the week :
>>
>>http://www.amazon.com/Why-Orwell-Matters-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/0465030505/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231377314&sr=8-1
>>
>>
>>>>>>>I think the twit filter should hide every message where the twitted person is involved, either as orginal poster or recipient of another post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am advocating a oubliette function, where selected oublieees could be removed from all searches and any memory that they ever existed ! ( and, of course, their photos would never appear atop Lenin's tomb )
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We have always been at war with Oceania !
>>>>>
>>>>>Doesn't that already occur when someone is banned? :)
>>>>
>>>>But that's more like everybody twitting the person. Or were you talking about war with Oceania? ;)
>>>