http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon- 20030630/012459.html ------- Forwarded message ------- From: Shane Taylor <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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? *** > > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > -- Michael Pugliese