[CrackMonkey] Freaking Media.

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Wed Apr 25 22:21:14 PDT 2001


mike dillon writes:

> Mr. Lee chose the name "Emmanuel Goldstein" as a pseudonym when
> registering his domains with "Dotster".  wow, i guess they both must have read
> George Orwell's _1984_, where Emmanuel Goldstein is an mythic revolutionary,
> inspiring the protagonist Winston Smith to push past the repressive bounds of
> Big Brother's society to attain a momentary a glimpse of freedom.

So, what was the totalitarians' motive which Winston _almost_ managed
to read about in _The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism_?
I've lost lots of sleep over this.

-- 
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