[ale] OT:Has "1984" finally arrived?

[Jay Lozier]

On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:33:18 -0400, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> With the recent revelations of the NSA and Friends big snoop projects
> it appears that I'm not the only one questioning whether or not George
> Orwell's novel "1984" that he wrote in 1949 has actually come true.
> Here is a link to a cnn.com article with the same question.
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/opinion/beale-1984-now/index.html?eref=igoogledmn_topstories
>
>
Yes.

One item not mentioned is the need for a cult of personality around a  
given leader to where the leader is transformed into a minor deity.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier at gmail.com