From: HAMMY@DENNY.COM   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:AIz5f.3642$tV6.2862@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...   
   > Iain wrote:   
   > > Martha Bridegam wrote:   
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   > >>Iain wrote:   
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   > >>>Can someone explain to me the profundity of the Party's solgans in   
   1984? I   
   > >>>ken the novel quite intimately, although I'm not sure why they got the   
   > >>>attnetion they deserve. "Ignorance is strength" sounds like a   
   "deliberate   
   > >>>exercise in doublethink", alright. I get the jist of it, but what else   
   do   
   > >>>they all have in common? Is there a sort of rhyme and reason to all   
   three?   
   > >>>   
   > >>>~Iain   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >>They all resembled genuine tragic/absurd slogans of the 1940s.   
   > >>   
   > >>"Freedom is Slavery" is not so far from "Arbeit Macht Frei."   
   > >>   
   > >>"Ignorance is Strength" isn't so far from "Credere, Obbedire,   
   Combattere."   
   > >>   
   > >>All the governments, our side and otherwise, more or less said that the   
   > >>war was being fought to bring about future peace.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Thanks for that -- I thought I was missing something.   
   > >   
   > > ~Iain   
   > >   
   >   
   > I'm not claiming infallibility here   
      
   Not even the Pope's got that...   
      
      
      
    but I do find it helps to think of   
   > *1984* in the context of the BBC monitoring reports of foreign   
   > broadcasts that Orwell read regularly in his capacity as a radio   
   > producer during the war.   
   >   
   > /M   
      
   BBC and _1984_: still inextricably linked in my mind. I notice your   
   demisemiblog is sporting an I Believe in the BBC sticker: a great abdication   
   of reason on your part, Mab, I am sorry to say.   
      
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