Winston-Salem, North Carolina????
NO..... but you're close.....
(after all,
it is in the home state of a certain dickweed....)
Is it because of ....
the effects of smoking too many Winston(TM) or Salem(TM) ciggies?
NO.... but your getting warmer.....
(after all,
a certain city's product is championed by
a certain alleged human)
Is it because of .....
IDOL by Winston Smith
(click here
to link to a groovy archive stie)
NO..... but maybe you're
seeing a trend?
My nom de guerre (and perhaps the dude with the space in his name) (and perhaps the editor of this zine, Emmanuel Goldstein) are influenced by:
| "If you want a picture of
the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four" "It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak (note: Standard English) forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a party member could properly wish to express,while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. " |
YES! You're almost there, but let's not forget about:
"The
Witch persecutions were tied to another of the far reaching changes in
consciousness that occured during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The rise of professionalism in many areas of life meant that activities
and services that people had always performed for themselves or for their
neighbors and families were taken over by a body of paid experts, who were
licensed or otherwise recognized as being the guardians of an officially
approved and restricted body of knowledge."
-- Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark, "The Burning Times"
"Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard."
"I made a mistake last evening which I shall not repeat.
In an informal telephone interview with a local reporter I made an offhand remark in an attempt to emphasize how strongly the American people feel about the nation's declining defense capability and other issues in which the president has been involved and for which he is responsible.
Of course I didn't expect to be taken literally when, to emphasize the cost and concerns I am hearing, I far too casually suggested that the president might need a bodyguard, or words to that effect.
And let me say that President Clinton will of course be welcomed by me and other citizens of North Carolina and other states any time he chooses to visit us.
The reporter asked my opinion and I tried to be candid in my response. The president has serious problems with his records of draft avoidance, with his stand on homosexuals in the military and the declining defense capability of America's armed forces -- the secretary of defense recently acknowledged that three U.S. Army divisions are not now combat ready.
I reiterate that I now wish that I had engaged in a terse interview with the reporter. I did not. As is my custom, we had an informal conversation from which he extracted an informal quote that should not have been taken literally, let alone published.
I do not fault him. I fault myself. From now on, such contacts as I may have with the media will be entirely formal."
WinstonSalem is all of these things,
but mostly 1 thing:
a premonition of things
to come.
