Tiffany cries just like Vanessa. lol
Oh my god. I’m so glad that Austin and Vanessa finally talked. The past two weeks have been like watching mom and dad fight. I hope that they’re okay now that they’ve talked, because they work really well together. They’re able to talk each other down and keep things in focus when one spirals.
I’m glad Vanessa didn’t go up. If she has to go home, I want it to be by Johnny Mac’s hands. He’s the only player playing the game as hard as Vanessa and the only one that deserves to take her out. The reverse is also true, but I happen to like Vanessa’s game more.
One of the funniest/dumbest things on Big Brother is when two house guests pass each other in the voting hallway and make some strange greeting/handshake.
SURPRISE! This year’s new twist is TWISTS! A NEW TWIST EVERY WEEK!
*rolls eyes* We’ll see how this goes, but it sounds gimmicky as hell.
If I ever go on a reality show like Big Brother or Survivor, I already have permission from my dad to swear on his name and break that promise or make up lies about his health in order to manipulate others to my will. It's not who I am in real life, but he and I both know it's a game and you do everything to win.
Every day I feel as though politicians and the rich and powerful all read 1984 and decided to use it as a guideline rather than a caution.
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Why George Orwell’s 1984 Got it Right
In June, 2013, book sales of George Orwell’s 1984 spiked to record sales after the news of the NSA surveillance broke. Orwell might have been wrong about the year, but he was on to something much bigger than even he knew. We found out that “Big Brother” is really watching us. All of the conspiracy theorists that society used to scoff at are being listened to a little more carefully. Snowden is still a wanted man for just letting us know that the unthinkable of our country spying on us in ways we would not think, was in fact happening.
Orwell need to explain why he wrote his now so famous book because he, as well, did not think that the general public should remain naive and in the dark about their governments.
In a 1944 letter to Noel Willmett, George Orwell laid out the thesis behind his next book, Nineteen Eight-Four, railing against the inevitable rise of Stalin, Anglo-American millionaires and “all sorts of petty fuhrers” who will prosper by means of anti-democratic caste systems. He explains that he supports going to war against Hitler as the lesser of two evils, but makes it clear that the great threat to the world is authoritarianism and its attendant systematic falsification of history, accepted by the intelligentsia so long as it is being undertaken by people on “our side.”
On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin. Most of them are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history etc. so long as they feel that it is on ‘our’ side. Indeed the statement that we haven’t a Fascist movement in England largely means that the young, at this moment, look for their fuhrer elsewhere. One can’t be sure that that won’t change, nor can one be sure that the common people won’t think ten years hence as the intellectuals do now. I hope they won’t, I even trust they won’t, but if so it will be at the cost of a struggle. If one simply proclaims that all is for the best and doesn’t point to the sinister symptoms, one is merely helping to bring totalitarianism nearer.
Two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it.
Orwell’s insights were more prophetic than fiction. He saw something coming to fruition that is not what our country was supposedly founded on. As for Snowden, some view him as more of a hero than traitor and that he did the right thing. Our society has the right to know what the government is doing. Unless brave souls step up to reveal this information, it will remain reserved for the very few, the privileged one percent.
I've read this book at least a dozen times in my life. In fact, it is currently sitting on my desk waiting for me to read it again. Even from the first read it angered me. I could always see that this was happening in the US. We hide parts of our past from schoolchildren (the Korean War, Christopher Columbus' true story), we lie about other things (Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction), and we keep war going at all costs (Iraq, Syria - if it happens).
1984 was a warning to the people and a strategy guide for the government.
Source: Boing Boing