They probably,and since they over here are slow to read and slow to comprehend , it all just dripped down slowly and finally arrived at its peak. Marta
On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Neal Hammon wrote: > > 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 > Social Media Management > Customer Service Solutions > iPad Mail > > 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jonathan Fletcher >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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