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echo: 10th_amd
to: Todd Sullivan
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2004-01-11 09:19:00
subject: Re: dumb tv shows

-=> TODD SULLIVAN wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 TS> In a message of 09 Jan 04 Roy J. Tellason wrote to me:

 RJT>> We'll see where it goes.  I guess we're living in "interesting
 RJT>> times"...
 TS>> We have been for the last 50 or so years.
 RJT> I don't know if I'd go as far as all that...

 TS> I would.  Reasoning below.

 RJT> Maybe 30-35?  Somewhere around there.

 TS> In my opinion, it all started with the Domino Theory of the advancement
 TS> of communism, after the Iron Curtain went up, putting it in the late
 TS> 40s. Thanks to "Tail-Gunner Joe" McCarthy for starting
the crap we're
 TS> seeing again.

 TS> All in all, 50+ years.  Orwell's probably spinning in his grave.

Who'd a thunk he'd actually understated the case in "1984"?

Remember G.W. saying when we say war what we mean is peace?
Isn't there a line in 1984 that says war is peace?
Been a long time since I read the book in Jr. High.
 
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