A Do-it-yourself Dystopia: The Americanization of Big BrotherThe essence of life in an oligarchy like George Orwell presents in '1984' is that freedom of choice is virtually non-existent. But what happens when so many trivial and meaningless choices inundate a culture such as our own and freedom itself becomes devalued? In 'A Do-It-Yourself Dystopia', through a variety of essays, Steven Carter addresses this and other issues in a wide-ranging search for hidden oligarchies of the American self. |
Contents
Democracy and Doublethink | 1 |
Newspeak for a New Millennium | 29 |
The Despair of Possibility | 43 |
The Bones of Saint Hermann Goering | 55 |
A Country of Dreadful Joy | 67 |
A Country of Dreadful Joy | 77 |
The Masks of Passion | 83 |
Alexanders Bitter Tears | 95 |
Leopards in the Temple | 113 |
The Rites of Memory | 129 |
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