Dish of the Day: Fallen- Sarah McLachlan
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hulk hogan has a nice house! some 18th century thing.
anyhow, i have finally finished reading 1984, after delaying it for so many days. it makes me compelled to feel frightened.
i mean, all that 'goldstein' articles do make sense. the society cannot work without classes- equality is not possible for the world to function.
if everybody is rich, and there are no farmers, who is going to produce the rice? who's going to give us bananas and milk for breakfast??!!!
well, you get the picture. if everybody is equal, there will be no working class, no one to produce anything, just more and more people demanding for more and less and less people doing the dirt.
that's unfair but it's just how the world has to go.
the creepy thing about 1984 is that everything it has said could happen. it was what george orwell predicted 1984 to be when he wrote the book in 1948. in a way, i suppose i'm thankful that it's 2005. can anyone imagine living under totalitarianism, where your thoughts are like public material, your actions monitored, where even muttering "mao zedong must die" in your sleep is a crime itself???

oh, and check out Newspeak!
for example, in our own standard english, we say
our lives are going well.
but in Newspeak, we say
our lifes are going goodwise.

you got to read the book to believe it, i tell you. it is frightening how the human mind can be played by other human minds. perhaps like how easy it is to spite your ex-boyfriend into wanting you back by making him jealous. or even dripping a few tears so that you become the innocent party at the scene of a crime. the ultima, in my opinion, is using pain for power.
as of this moment, i'm still on the essay of Newspeak at the end of the book- the language in the story used to diminish thought, by eliminating all words that could show any emotion, any ambiguities or shades of meaning- so that you become as stupid as you think you are intelligent. doublethink, blackwhite, crimestop... sanity is statistical.

i have fallen, i have
sunk so low
i messed up better i should know
so don't come round here
and tell me i told you so.

I blogged @ 3:06 PM