re: #50 EPR-radar

The ACLU is just another convenient target. If you are in the business of spreading hate 24/7, you’ll need multiple targets to keep the propaganda interesting.

One thing that Orwell got wrong in 1984 was the assumption that two-minutes hate vs. a single target would suffice, even if repeated several times a day.

I don’t know—Orwell had a pretty good bead on the whole hate-spreading thing:

“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”