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<P class=toptext>Visionaries:</P>
<P class=toptext>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. </P>
<P class=toptext>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. </P>
<P class=toptext><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>Orwell Rolls in his Grave</FONT></STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000> - A Film by Robert Kane Pappas </FONT></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>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. </FONT><A href="http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/04/05/pre04014.html#more"><FONT face=Verdana>http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/04/05/pre04014.html#more</FONT></A></P>
<P>Doug's phrases it a little differently:</P>
<P><STRONG><FONT size=4>George Orwell, Call Your Office<BR></FONT>Topic: </STRONG>Current Events<BR>One of the problems that Orwell had in his classic <I>1984</I> 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 <I>them</I>, Orwell did not make the compelling nature of this propaganda obvious to the reader of the book.Just as in <I>1984</I>, the image is what counts, and substance can go down the memory hole." <EM><BR></EM><I><A href="http://dougwils.com/"><EM>http://dougwils.com/</EM></A><EM> </EM>Posted by Douglas Wilson<FONT size=-2> - 7/30/2004 12:31:32 PM</FONT></I></P>
<P><FONT size=+0>One point not covered in the Buzzflash segment cited above, that Doug did include in his commentary on the convention however cannot stand unchallenged. </FONT><FONT size=+0>Doug ends his column by saying: "It is fun being lied to."<BR>(<A href="http://dougwils.com/"><EM>http://dougwils.com/</EM></A><EM> Posted by Douglas Wilson - 7/30/2004 12:31:32 PM)</EM></FONT></P>
<P class=toptext>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.....</P>
<P class=toptext>Rose Huskey<BR><FONT lang=0 face=Verdana FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">"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<BR></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>