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This is a collection of curious articles for students who have taken POS 101 - and would like to keep reading and thinking about some of the issues we discussed (plus some we missed).
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Saturday, August 20, 2016
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blog post contains a curious comic illustrating Neil Postman’s fear that “Huxley,
not Orwell, was right” in describing the totalitarianism of the future. Of
course, with the growth of government and corporate surveillance, it has become
a lot harder to dismiss Orwell. Postman was the most famous media critic – and skeptic
– since Marshal McLuhan.
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