>>Sounds more like the proverbial (as translated from Serbian) "The mountain shook, a mouse was born".

>Yes, and if it is an American story it will be another like Mickey Mouse and create a giant corporation worth billions.

The original meaning was "much ado about nothing", but you're right, the American version of the story could go both ways. It could be a million dollar media hype about some minor event, or it could be a minor thing which would snowball into a huge company.

>Personally I thing we should know nothing about everything.

Wasn't that Mark Twain's definition of a journalist?

> Today the media, business, and political leaders misinform us on a regular basis. Why should we know anything? Just pay your taxes, use your credit cards and work to pay them and what it costs to survive. Enjoy life! That is what recreational drugs, alcohol, professional sports and television programs are for. We may not have the Roman Coliseum complete with Christians and Lions, but we do have our technology gods to distract us and protect us from reality.

Actually, Orwell was utterly wrong. It's not the Party who will be the Big Brother - the Parties serve Big Brother, aka Big Buck. To iterate the beginning of your paragraph, the goal of the current development is that 0% of people will own 100% of everything, while the remaining 100% of people will own the remaining 0% of everything... to an insignificant error of 0.0001%.