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i have been rereading orwell's "homage to calalonia" and i cannot recommend it highly enough...in fact i would recommend reading orwell's non-fiction ( "the road to wigan pier" or " down and out in paris and london"for example ) and essays as a sort of counterpoint to "animal farm" and "1984"...he had more depth than that...and ion it he spends some time analyzing how the media outside spain simplified and slanted their coverage of events to fit a few preexisting views on fascism held by the balance of news consumers of the day...they lied by omission in other words...something we should all be familiar with...media outlets are corporate interests dedicated to acquiring and retaining an audience by telling it what it wants to here rather than anything objective ( this is true of msnbc, fox, the n y times, and any other one you's care to mention ) and so are more than happy to omit anything that might perturb readers/viewers/listeners...orwell was also a believer in a strong sapir/whorf hypothesis...that language controls thought and that by limiting language ( newspeak ) you can limit thought..nah..i will buy into a weak spir/whorf...some aspects of culture and society can define parameters of thought but those can be disrupted by epiphany...he also was deeply mired in "he who controls the past controls the future" and believed that propaganda sought to control the debate by unmooring historical perspective through the physical alteration and destruction of the past...as much as i admire orwell and feel he has a better handle on the political apparatus than huxley's hedonistic approach to societal control ( "better a gram than a damn" )we are about to part company...the curent crop of corporate propagandists are not trying to physically destroy the past...there is no "memory hole"...what;'s up instead is that there is such an abundance of conflicting material geared towards the specific beliefs of readers/viewers/listeners that finding any certainty is a challenge...you can read/watch/listen to anything you want and who knows what is what? you can find argument and "facts" to shore up any sort of belief system out there...no matter how extreme or unreasonably inane...an over abundance of information/opinion that distorts reality rather than a dearth...where to start rather than where to find...there's no end to it.