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Meet the ‘Ruskies’: American TV portrays stereotypical Russians
- All nations are Granfalloons. All. Of. Them.
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- And methodical. Ever since Bernays. And George Orwell's dystopian fiction 1984 became their blueprint and manual....
There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs ...
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs — to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it. We’re destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms there are also the antonyms.
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
~George Orwell, 1984
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs — to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it. We’re destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms there are also the antonyms.
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
~George Orwell, 1984
Response to DeSwiss (Original post)
...it'd be on teevee making profits on cable.
- It's the price one must pay for non-discrimination in America: anonymity and life totally unlike predictable teevee plots......
- ''Eagle?! Why in Russia we call this pigeon. They very good. Tastes like chicken......''
And, if you think the above was a shot at Czar Vlad, check out my new thread in Good Reads!!! 
- Once we came out from under our desks when the air-raid sirens stopped, things went right back to normal. Subdued terror.
