Posted on 05/14/2010 11:31:16 AM PDT by Nachum
The idea of a government "Department of Information" is not new. After all, the Nazis had one. So did the Soviets. All good little dictatorships need one in order to get the "facts" out to the people.
HuffPo blogger - brain dead psychologist Jim Taylor - originally came up with the idea as a serious measure to get the "facts" out to the people. And like any enthusiastic authoritarian, he wants the government to determine what the "facts" are:
Here is my proposal to return fact-based reality to our national dialogue (note: please don't miss my ironic tone):The federal government should create a Department of Information whose responsibility it is to determine the facts behind any decision that confronts our country.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My proposal: Fire 70% of the executive branch of government, and 50% of the legislative.
MiniTruth doupleplusgood
.....followed by an Office of Information Retreival (from the movie “Brazil”)
For me that’s a classic movie.
Yeppers ... that's the essence of Good Government (which we will call goodgov).
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc [English Socialism], but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten , a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of IngSoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. - George Orwell, afterword to the 1949 edition
Ministry of Truth?....hmmmmm, rings a bell..........an ALARM BELL!!!!!!!!!!!..................
Well, we ceratainly have a department of DISINFORMATION that’s for sure!
Brazil is one of the two movies that gave me nightmares....bad ones!
I think we need a Dept of Rainbows & Unicorns.....you know....for the children.
“I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. ..” ~ Michael Crichton
To read more click link below and scroll down to “Environmentalism as Religion” Remarks to the Commonwealth Club by Michael Crichton, San Francisco, September 15, 2003 http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/index.html
Yep. Modern “political correctness” and hate-speech laws closely mirror Orwell’s Newspeak.
Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment
If I read him correctly, what the FACTS are is something that will be determined by a panel of bureaucrats.
Yep, that sounds about right...
I think we need a Dept of Rainbows & Unicorns.....you know....for the children.
Can Dennis Kucinich’s Peace Department be far behind?
Brazil is one of the two movies that gave me nightmares....bad ones!
What was the other one?
Friday the 13th?
A Clockwork Orange?
Saving Private Ryan?
Fight Club?
Primary Colors?
doubleplusungood comrade
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