[Vision2020] Doug and the Democratic Convention

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries:
I am pleased that Doug Wilson watched any of the Democratic Convention - 
after all we Democrats are not especially focused on preaching to the saved but 
rather, reaching out and encouraging all Americans to hope for and work toward a 
better nation. 
I was even impressed with Doug's Orwellian analogy, until in an effort to 
learn more about the filmmaker, I did a little googling and it appears that he 
was scooped.  
Orwell Rolls in his Grave - A Film by Robert Kane Pappas This is a must see, 
a wake-up call to America that we have already entered an Orwellian world when 
history, context, and language are redefined daily by the government, as the 
media broadcasts the new version of the truth without question. 
http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/04/05/pre04014.html#more
Doug's phrases it a little differently:
George Orwell, Call Your Office
Topic: Current Events
One of the problems that Orwell had in his classic 1984 is that of a disjunct 
between the inhabitants of the world he was describing and the inhabitants of 
the world in which people were reading his book. In other words, while Big 
Brother held everyone in thrall with propaganda that was believable to them, 
Orwell did not make the compelling nature of this propaganda obvious to the 
reader of the book.Just as in 1984, the image is what counts, and substance can go 
down the memory hole." 
http://dougwils.com/ Posted by Douglas Wilson - 7/30/2004 12:31:32 PM
One point not covered in the Buzzflash segment cited above, that Doug did 
include in his commentary on the convention however cannot stand unchallenged.  
Doug ends his column by saying:  "It is fun being lied to."
(http://dougwils.com/ Posted by Douglas Wilson - 7/30/2004 12:31:32 PM)
Well, no, Doug.  For some it may be fun to tell lies.  I personally think it 
is a lot of fun to expose lies and liars.  But being lied to, no, I just 
wouldn't call that much fun.  How curious that you do.....
Rose Huskey
"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are 
just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between 
doing something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan
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