George Orwell

[Hale]

Who quoted Orwell? He's quite the leftist. I'm suprised he made the cut.

[Slaughter]

Don't look at me.... I'm thinking it was Squid though.. we always had our hopes about Squidster..

[Widowmaker]

Left or right, does it realy matter? The amount of "anti-liberal" rhetoric on the news and in life out there is starting to worry me.

Maybe our next war will be a War against Liberalism?

This country is not the same one I grew up in.

Just remember that all AK'ers were created equal.

Some AK'ers are more equal than others.

The Widowmaker is the most equal of all.

[[AK]Squidly]

Anti-liberal rhetoric, or equal time? Seems to me that the death grip of liberalism that has entombed the media since the Vietnam war is beginning to weaken - nothing more.

Liberal voices still far outnumber those of the right in all areas except radio.

[Slaughter]

I dunno.. another Civil War?... Not possible..

[Widowmaker]

I could care less about media bias and such accusations.

If you don't like it don't watch it. I for one do not spend my TV time watching silly news programs or commentators. There is only about 30min of news a day that matters to me and most of that involves weather and traffic. I have more enjoyable ways of spending my time than worrying about it.

It is still my contention that money is the largest bias. I completely discount the bias claims since it seems rediculous to me that there is some wide agenda being played out. I am just tired of hearing about liberal bias, there are so many other things to worry about.

You can pull out all the "facts" you want but it still looks to me like a money bias. The conservative leaning news is chasing the right wing dollar and the liberal leaning media is chasing the liberal dollar.

And if education is so damn liberal maybe one should wonder why more "conservatives" are not going into education. Could it be that there is no pay in it? That is sure why I turned away from the education degree I once worked on.

And please spare me from the inevitable yelling about how I am blind to the obvious bias. I am not blind but I do not believe there is some communist fifth collum. It's all about the cash. And I include the current charges about CNN running Saddam propganda to remain in Bagdahd. It is not about some communist sympathizing with Hussein it is about keeping reporters in Bagdahd to sound like they are getting a "scoop" on other networks regarudless of the truth of the story. Truth matters far less than cash for all the corporations I have known.

Them's my feelings and I'll stick to them. I still contend that if you don't want to watch a certain media outlet because of your bias then don't. But please try not to be so paranoid that you think there is actualy some kind of subversion going on.

That's hopefully the last I will say on it.

Besides, I feel like I am hijacking a thread here. This kind of discussion has no place on the Planetside board.

[[AK]Squidly]

Uhm, you write all that and then say, in effect, "don't respond because this is a Planetside forum"?

[[AK]Choozoo]

I find that if you don't classify yourself, or allow yourself to be classified, that you are a much happier person. = Choozoo right down the middle, and I make my own opinions.

[Hale]

Amen, brother Choozoo.


For those interested reading more about Orwell, I recommend 'The Road to Wiggan Pier'. Unlike his more popular books (Animal Farm, 1984), he gives you his positions straight out. The more welfare, the better!!

[[AK]Bribo]

Originally posted by [AK]Choozoo
I find that if you don't classify yourself, or allow yourself to be classified, that you are a much happier person. = Choozoo right down the middle, and I make my own opinions.

I classify you as a non-PlanetSide Beta tester.

[[AK]Choozoo]

Bribo my friend, you need a big cup....

[Widowmaker]

Bah, I never liked reading Orwell. Dark, dreary, mostly boring with characters I did not realy care about as they were more just figures to illustrate some message.

The animated movie of Animal Farm was cute. After reading the book the message I got from it was a warning against a communist dictatorship. He may be all for a welfare state but definetly did not like dictatorships. I don't pay a lot of attention to a writers politics, it is much like celebrity politics and just anoys me when they try to mask a huge political message in a piece of prose. Some message and commentary is fine, but too much is just preaching to me... yawn.

Chicken Run was more fun

And I think Bribo is right on in his Choozoo classification!

[[AK]Choozoo]

That's it!

You all get BigCups!

Pick your poison for tonight fellas, the BigCup cometh!

[[AK]Rocks]

What about Intel?

[[AK]Palooka]

True, Orwell was a leftist; he called himself a democratic socialist, or something to that effect. However, he was no pacifist. In fact, he vehemently opposed the tyranny of totalitarianism both in his writings and by placing himself in harm's way during the Spanish Civil War. While I do not agree with much of his politics, I do respect his works (1984 is one of my favorite books), and I think that the quote I used for the description of this forum is both true and appropriate. PlanetSide is a game about warring factions and the pursuit of conquest, after all.