Re:Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
by greendestiny on Monday June 29, 2009 @02:34AM
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People write novels about being kidnapped and threatened, not about having your edits revised and whining.
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Parent said 'dystopian novels', where information is censored or altered. Such is the case with 1984 at least.
Re:Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
by greendestiny on Monday June 29, 2009 @04:13AM
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Yes, I just found it slightly ridiculous. I think comparisons to 1984 are grossly overused, but especially when the point of books like 1984 is the exploration of complete oppression of society through government control - not that obtuse bureaucracy is kind of frustrating.
gov controlled dystopians and obtuse bureaucracies are often intertwined. for example, mindless obedience to tube in, tube out is a problem protagonists encounter time and again (Brazil, 1984, Anthem).