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Originally Posted by ubertuber
Please make your mind up and either post to add to the discussion or not at all. The whole "too good for you guys and this conversation" genre of posts is pretty lame. If you'd just left this part (that I snipped above) out of your post, your main point would receive more attention - and maybe then we'd be approaching "enlightenment".
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I'll elaborate for him. Orwell's 1984 depicted a country which was perpetually at "war" with an unseen, nebulous enemy. Because there was no clear definition of who the enemy was, the war never had to end. And the government used the war as a vehicle to control its people - by stripping freedoms in the name of fighting for the country's survival.
Sound familiar?
It really does seem like this administration is using 1984 as an instruction manual.