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99.% of the time, politicos invoke such things as a bait-and-switch tactic.
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Personally I doubt they take much more than their incumbency and paycheck seriously on the whole.
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If those pieces of fiction exist in the public consciousness, most assuredly. For example, can you imagine a Western politician referring to himself as Big Brother?
Except for 4/1/2011. That day lingers in my memory like...metaphor here...I should go.
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The only cases I can imagine would be religious nutjob politicos who use rhetoric that could have been cribbed from the Left Behind series.
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Stay on topic, please.
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I'm willing they do it more to show they're "Doing Something to Safe Guard the FutureTM" than any actual concern.
edited 17th Feb '11 7:32:02 PM by Deboss
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C'mon, 1984's been a buzzword since about 1948. A politician using it in their speeches is hardly a matter of grand significance.
What's precedent ever done for us?
I doubt most politicans have more than pop-cultural knowledge of the book. I doubt more than, say 50% read it.
Sneering Imperialist
Dunno if it technically counts as dystopian, but wasn't Threads taken very seriously back in the 80's?
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Well, while the sheer lunacy of the Party's Alternate Reality Interpretation in 1984 is unlikely to ever come to pass, DNA discrimination is almost assured (at least by health insurance agencies) if the technology to easily read DNA comes around.
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Despite being fiction for the majority of the piece, there was a good part of the book that was devoted to political hypotheses that detailed the creation and movement of the classes in a majority of any given society. Granted, these of course were just hypotheses, but politicians may have worked on “proving” them in recent years.
C'mon, 1984's been a buzzword since about 1948. A politician using it in their speeches is hardly a matter of grand significance
Two cases in point.
David Cameron's references to Nineteen Eighty Four in a general election campaign speech. He implied that he wants to avoid... Orwellian scenarios.
Pre-emptive moves by the US congress to prevent DNA-based discrimination, which was a major theme of GATTACA.
edited 17th Feb '11 7:09:56 PM by Shichibukai
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