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From: Shane Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Wanda on Orwell (was [lbo-talk] Big Brother)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:14:22 -0500

>> GRANMA DIARIO (Cuba) May 28, 2003
>>
>> Big Brother Is Watching You. The Predictions of
>> Orwell ROLANDO PEREZ BETANCOURT
>
> A letter to the _Anderson Valley Advertiser_:
>
> *** The references to "Orwell" in the opening paragraphs of Noam
> Chomsky's in yr. issue of Aug. 10 [1988]: I think it's a common
> misconception that Blair aka Orwell was a prophet in the popular sense of
> predicting the future, when he was actually a prophet in the more proper
> sense of having insight into his own experience.  In _Homage to
> Catalonia_, published long before _1984_, Blair/Orwell extensively
> documented the invention of "history" by the journalists reporting the
> Spanish Civil War in which he served on the side of humanity; he never
> thought that he was inventing the process of the official defacement of
> reality that he wrote about in _1984_.
>
> As for the rest of the distortions in Chomsky's short article, it would
> take more than the 5 cent psychoanalysis to sort them out, which might
> seem like a pity w/o the examples of the "Orwells" (such as they are).
> Chomsky seems to be well unbalanced in the right (no, proper) direction.
>
>                       Yr. Ob'd'nt Servant, &c., &c.,
>                               Wanda Tinasky
>
> P.S.:  RE:  The use of the term WASP by Alexander Co__burn in the same
> issue: After all these years, has the redundancy not become apparent, or
> has somebody really seen a BASP? ***
>

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