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March 15, 2007

1984 Reloaded: El Ministerio de la Verdad aterriza en el mundo real

Últimamente me estaba encontrando cada vez más frecuentes referencias a "1984" en los sitios que visito con frecuencia, como Barrapunto. Y tenia que suceder: La realidad siempre supera a la ficción, por inverosimil u horrible que esta sea: 

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/31/0429256&from=rss

Y por si "corrigen" la noticia, la pego entera.

Siempre había tenido la sospecha de que esto podía suceder con los periódicos "online" dada la extrema facilidad para modificar los contenidos de una página web, especialmente ahora que existen los sistemas de gestión de contenidos y weblogs, pero no pensaba que fuera a darse tan pronto. A partir de ahora ya sabeis, guardad copias en papel de las noticias importantes… por si acaso cambian el pasado.

 "BBC is reporting that a newly created Pentagon unit has a mandate to fight ‘inaccurate’ news stories. From the article: ‘The Pentagon has set up a new unit to focus on promoting its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet. […] A Pentagon memo seen by the Associated Press news agency said the new unit will "develop messages" for the 24-hour news cycle and aim to "correct the record". A spokesman said the unit would monitor media such as weblogs and would also employ "surrogates", or top politicians or lobbyists who could be interviewed on TV and radio shows.’"

Y para los que no sepais lo que es el Ministerio de la Verdad, id leyendoos urgentemente "1984" de George Orwell, y poned la obra en el contexto actual, no en el aséptico contexto histórico al que la quieren restringir: imprescindible que os mireis este 1984 reloaded, antes de que desaparezca de la circulación o alguien cambie su contenido…

Renowned philosopher Erich Fromm said of 1984 that it would be a shame if people just accepted 1984 as a description of Stalinist totalitarianism. He saw it as a warning about us. Yet it appears that we aren’t paying very close attention to that warning. Although 1984 represents an extreme of totalitarian society, with complete control over the media and people’s lives, we are today closer to Orwell’s vision than we have ever been. It’s time to step back from the brink.

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