I suppose we should talk again about the Orwellian tendencies of the current Executive:
Point A: Promotion of Endless War while at the same time declaring We're Winning.
Point B: Insistence that the rapidly cratering Economy is not only Fine, but Going Swimmingly, Just as We Planned, At Its Heart Robust, and, any minute now, will enable Us to announce over-fulfillment of the Second Four-Year Plan. Didn't you get your chocolates?
Point C: Pay no mind to the small number of Inner Circle weathly persons doing quite well (thanks very much for the tax breaks, says the Boss) while Ordinary Joe Proles make do with spongy meat-like patties and bad coffee from grimy fast-food joints. Don't eat the lettuce.
Point D: What the hell is up with this Abstinence movement? Anti-Sex? More like Anti-Human. You betcha.
Point E: Did I have a Point E? Right. Surveillance. Someone is watching you, maybe not Big Brother, but for sure Big Business. Govt doesn't need to create a huge system with all your info -- it can just tap into what Corporate already has on you: what you spend your $ on, where you go, who you call/email/text/IM/poke... The GPS chip in your phone comes from Big WirelessCo, not Big Govt, so it's okay, says the kid. Just wanna talk to my buds, and facebook rocks, you can tell everyone what you're doing all the time, says the kid. (and they tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and then they tell everyone who has access to the internet, and so on...)
Tick, tock.
19 July 2007
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