On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Richard Meadows wrote:
For probably 30+ years in the DC area it stood for NO SUCH AGENCY. It
is the National Security Administration. Those collecting this e-mail
and filing it away for some future time when they want to lock up the
dissidents.
Richard D. Meadows
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Did they open the office in 1984? Neal
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It
is adystopian and satirical novel set in Oceania, where society is
tyrannized by The Party and its totalitarian ideology.[1] The Oceanian
province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent
government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a
political system euphemistically named English Socialism(Ingsoc) under
the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all
individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes.[2] Their
tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who
enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big
Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed
greater good.[1] The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a
member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth
(Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical
revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that
the historical record always supports the current party line.[3] Smith
is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and
dreams of rebellion against Big Brother.
As literary political fiction and as dystopian science-fiction,
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style.
Many of its terms and concepts, such asBig Brother, doublethink,
thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and memory hole, have entered everyday use
since its publication in 1949. Moreover, Nineteen Eighty-
Fourpopularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official
deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a
totalitarian or authoritarian state.
On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:21, Marta Edie <[email protected]> wrote:
What is that?
Marta
On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Richard Meadows <[email protected]>
wrote:
I had no idea that there was a NSA office here in town.
And they LIKE it that way!
::-)
j.
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