MSP 1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Doublethink, Julian Assange, List Of The Hunger Games Characters
5 Dec 2016
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The persistence of doublethink in media and culture: doublethink the method of thinking in which people accept and believe that two opposite and contradictory propositions are both true at the same time and in the same respect. Lie will always be ahead of the truth: three examples of doublethink. Ex: shutting down wikileaks, assassinating julian assange. We are told that the terror war is necessary to protect our own freedom. We give up our civil liberties to protect our freedoms. Airport screenings merge surveillance with media spectacle. The hunger games: are terror and entertainment our fate: possible futures: Hg is combo of super bowl, survivor, ai, and fighting championships. Terror war would end sooner if we were more enlightened. Films such as hg and wall-e show that people will actively participate in their liberation or revolution once they are enlightened about their true conditions. Science has been overtaken by the spectacle: neil armstrong"s moonwalk vs. michael jackson, cosmos vs.
