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Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
enmnews.com ^ | 08/19/2019

Posted on 08/19/2019 9:06:26 AM PDT by DFG

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1 posted on 08/19/2019 9:06:26 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Very informative article, and worth reading to the end.


2 posted on 08/19/2019 9:19:13 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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It’s getting to where you have to be careful when shopping at Amazon, that you are buying the real thing, and not a deceptive fake.

IMHO, Amazon has not been doing enough of the store owners due diligence, to ensure that the buyer is not ripped off by deceptive marketing.


3 posted on 08/19/2019 9:20:50 AM PDT by jimtorr
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IIRC Orwell’s estate sued Apple over the 1984 commercial.

And every year at this time, Chicago lawyer Bill Coulson thinks about what’s wrong with that historical record and the ways he might try to correct it. The thoughts have a little extra urgency this year, with Orwell’s “1984” being widely reread by people who fear the worst about Donald Trump’s presidency.

Chicago attorney William Coulson has been working for years to set the record straight on Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl ad.
Chicago attorney William Coulson has been working for years to set the record straight on Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl ad. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Coulson’s specialty is intellectual property, and Apple, he has been on a lonely crusade to let people know, violated it by appropriating scenes and themes from Orwell’s novel for its own commercial purposes.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-apple-1984-ad-myths-ent-0205-20170201-column.html


4 posted on 08/19/2019 9:21:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DFG

Have they rewritten it yet to claim that the danger is not the state but individualism and non-conformity?


5 posted on 08/19/2019 9:24:05 AM PDT by DannyTN
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How much of a brain-dead leftist does one have to be to associate 1984 with Trump, when Orwell says that Big Brother is the head of INGSOC, which he explicitly explains is Newspeak for “English Socialism”?

I really do hope some Trump haters read the book because they might get their eyes opened about how socialist societies work in practice.


6 posted on 08/19/2019 9:34:57 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: DFG

I think that if Orwell were alive today he would marvel at the genius of the newspeak bureaucrats having their work done by what is meant to appear as objective private sector journalists. It’s sorta like a newspeak information and censorship laundering front.

Often the problem with drastic socialism has been the increasing need for oppressive totalitarian control to maintain it, which further breeds resentment and the eventual outcome of collapse or revolution. But if your propaganda doesn’t come from state run print or TV, then you can buffer to focus of the resentment.


7 posted on 08/19/2019 9:35:35 AM PDT by z3n
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I admit to being somewhat relieved that nearly everything was likely due to translation or mistakes (though not all as that article points out)

The bigger problem is that at some point, people will begin changing the wording deliberately. And being untethered from the truth, it is a certainty that over time, the original will be deliberately misrepresented to support a particular viewpoint.

If Leftists have their way, it WILL happen.

The irony.


8 posted on 08/19/2019 9:36:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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When I first read 1984 many years ago, I never thought I’d be living it......


9 posted on 08/19/2019 9:42:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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So many of the books of yesteryear are becoming the reality of today. In 100 years I am sure that Orwell will not be viewed as a fiction writer, but more as a prophet. When we look at what is happening to free speech, how long until Farenheit 451 becomes reality.


10 posted on 08/19/2019 9:45:54 AM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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To: DFG

Messing with language is doubleplusungood!


11 posted on 08/19/2019 9:52:22 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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And in a similar vein of thought: Do I want to shop at Amazon anymore? And if I look at the future; I find that Amazon is the future. My choices are of little regard.


12 posted on 08/19/2019 9:54:38 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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I always try to buy older books in the earlier editions where possible for exactly this type of issue.

I have found a few “edits to correct errors/omissions” that completely changed the character of the original thought.


13 posted on 08/19/2019 10:06:08 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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I bought a book from another author which was nothing more than the Project Gutenberg version printed by Amazon. They didn’t even bother to relabel the original table of contents with the new pagination.


14 posted on 08/19/2019 10:06:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
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To: jimtorr

We watched a version of Billy Jack last weekend. It was sliced to pieces to turn an R rated movie into PG. Total drek. No warning label anywhere on the box. The memory chute is everywhere.


15 posted on 08/19/2019 10:09:20 AM PDT by Luke21 (Vote, vote, vote doesn't work, work, work.)
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To: DFG

I read this article earlier today. It is both chilling and prescient in it’s analysis.


16 posted on 08/19/2019 10:09:29 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: DannyTN
Have they rewritten it yet to claim that the danger is not the state but individualism and non-conformity?

Hell, the left have effectively rewritten creation so what is a little 1984 but an inkblot.

17 posted on 08/19/2019 10:22:07 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
My wife painted a picture some years back of my favorite books:

It was one of her early paintings, but she did it without my input so it clearly shows two things: I talk a lot about certain books....and secondly...she listens...:)

I have heard it said, and understand the context passionately: "Leftists think Orwell's "1984" is an instructional manual, not a cautionary tale."

18 posted on 08/19/2019 10:29:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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LOL, kind of reminds me of the same reaction when he said he saw “Pulp Fiction” on network television, and my shocked response was “Really? How on earth did they do that?”

He said “They didn’t. It made the movie unwatchable.”


19 posted on 08/19/2019 10:31:24 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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That's a great painting. The composition, colors. It's all in balance. Beautiful.

She's very good.

20 posted on 08/19/2019 10:45:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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