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Other Books talked about during the show are:
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer (more to come in the following weeks regarding this book, stay tuned.)
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
Black List: A Thriller by Brad Thor (new July 31, 2012)
Full Black: A Thriller by Brad Thor
Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control, accomplished with a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc), which is administrated by a privileged Inner Party elite. Yet they too are subordinated to the totalitarian cult of personality of Big Brother, the deified Party leader who rules with a philosophy that decries individuality and reason as thoughtcrimes; thus the people of Oceania are subordinated to a supposed collective greater good. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record is congruent with the current party ideology. Because of the childhood trauma of the destruction of his family — the disappearances of his parents and sister — Winston Smith secretly hates the Party, and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. (wikipedia.com)
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