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Are we headed toward a totalitarian society like that depicted in 1984?
Are we headed toward a totalitarian society like that depicted in 1984?
| So, while we may not be in a totalitarian society like the one depicted in 1984, the ways in which advertisers, politicians and journalists manipulate language in order to control the thoughts of the populace in current-day society indicate that we could be headed in that direction. Our advertisers use language to manipulate us into buying their products, President Bush manipulates us into supporting the war by calling the terrorists "evil" and using evangelical wording to convince us he is our messiah, and our journalists soften the language they use to describe harsh military actions as a way to make the war seem less violent. While it's true that these ways of manipulating the public are not nearly as controlling as those used by the Party in 1984, they do have many disturbing similarities. Will we one day be living in a totalitarian society like that depicted in 1984? |
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