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Bernie Sanders wrote:...actually it's ordinary Russians losing their jobs, as Russian economy continues to collapse. Russians will need a wheel barrel soon, to buy a loaf of bread.
The film and its accompanying auditory and visual cues (which include a grinding noise that Orwell describes as "of some monstrous machine running without oil") are a form of brainwashing to Party members, attempting to whip them into a frenzy of hatred and loathing for Emmanuel Goldstein and the current enemy superstate. Apparently, it is not uncommon for those caught up in the hate to physically assault or throw things at the telescreen, as Julia does during the scene.
The film becomes more surreal as it progresses, with Goldstein's face morphing into a sheep as enemy soldiers advance on the viewers, before one such soldier charges at the screen, submachine gun blazing. He morphs, finally, into the face of Big Brother at the end of the two minutes. At the end, the mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted viewers chant "B-B!...B-B!" over and over again, ritualistically.
Within the book, the purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is said to satisfy the citizens' subdued feelings of angst and hatred from leading such a wretched, controlled existence. By re-directing these subconscious feelings away from the Oceanian government and toward external enemies (which probably do not even exist), the Party minimises subversive thought and behaviour.
Bernie Sanders wrote:China and Russia are both in decline.
Just the facts, Jack!
mrswdk wrote:Bernie Sanders wrote:China and Russia are both in decline.
Just the facts, Jack!
If those are your facts then I'd love to see what your half-truths and lies look like.
http://knoema.com/loqqwx/china-gdp-grow ... and-charts
Bernie Sanders wrote:mrswdk wrote:Bernie Sanders wrote:China and Russia are both in decline.
Just the facts, Jack!
If those are your facts then I'd love to see what your half-truths and lies look like.
http://knoema.com/loqqwx/china-gdp-grow ... and-charts
Your forecast was from Oct. 2015.
Since then the Chinese Stock Market has virtually collapsed.
Bernie Sanders wrote:Like I said, you don't know squat about the Chinese Stock Market or it's economy.
mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
Anyone who hasn't read 1984 is essentially illiterate.
Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
Anyone who hasn't read 1984 is essentially illiterate.
mrswdk wrote:Bernie Sanders wrote:Like I said, you don't know squat about the Chinese Stock Market or it's economy.
Says the guy who thinks that one blip in the stock market is going to have slashed China's economic hopes for the next decade or two.
mrswdk wrote:Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
Anyone who hasn't read 1984 is essentially illiterate.
Oh I see. So 1984 is actually a widely read book among people from the demographic groups present on this forum?
mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
is a television reality game show based on an originally Dutch TV series of the same name created by producer John de Mol in 1997.[The series follows a group of contestants, known as HouseGuests, who are living together in a custom-built home under constant surveillance. ]The HouseGuests are completely isolated from the outside world, and can have no communication with those not in the house
The series takes its name from the character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Broth ... _series%29Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
Anyone who hasn't read 1984 is essentially illiterate.
Oh I see. So 1984 is actually a widely read book among people from the demographic groups present on this forum?
It's definitely right up there with Gulliver's Travels, Brave New Worlds, Reveille for Radicals, Atlas Shrugged, Heinlein's the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Kafka's The Trial as a must-read social critique.
Also, it's mandatory high school reading in most of the English-speaking world, so even people who don't give a shit about understanding society have at least a passing acquaintance with it.
Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:Dukasaur wrote:mrswdk wrote:It's a good job that you linked to the page about 1984 which explains what the Two Minute Hate is. That's a pretty obscure book to quote from and I imagine the reference would have flown over everyone's heads if you hadn't.
Anyone who hasn't read 1984 is essentially illiterate.
Oh I see. So 1984 is actually a widely read book among people from the demographic groups present on this forum?
It's definitely right up there with Gulliver's Travels, Brave New Worlds, Reveille for Radicals, A Generation of Vipers, The Wealth of Nations, Candide, Atlas Shrugged, Heinlein's the Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Kafka's The Trial as a must-read social critique.
Also, it's mandatory high school reading in most of the English-speaking world, so even people who don't give a shit about understanding society have at least a passing acquaintance with it.
waauw wrote:You have no clue what you're talking about. It's the liberals and the nationalists(aka the right wing) that propose stricter immigration laws.
Bernie Sanders wrote:China and Russia are both in decline.
pmchugh wrote:GoranZ wants as all back on topic. About how we can make Germany great again if we just persecute a religious minority.
tzor wrote:waauw wrote:You have no clue what you're talking about. It's the liberals and the nationalists(aka the right wing) that propose stricter immigration laws.
There are some words whose meanings literally flip around when brought over "the pond."
"Liberal" is one word.
"Fanny" is another word.
Blame the Progressives in the US for that one.
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