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A 6 page paper which juxtaposes Orwell’s fiction with MacArthur’s fact, considering through historical data how much about hysteria and mind control American people can be controlled and misled by a government conspiracy. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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both the White House and the Pentagon felt compelled to beat the Vietnam syndrome with a winning war, to blame the messenger as unpatriotic for any bad news, and to
keep the American press under control and the public in the dark. According to MacArthur, despite the fact that what he dubs as the First Gulf War was the
most documented in media history, Washingtons power elite managed the information in order to prove their assertion that the United States was fighting a just war for a noble cause.
MacArthur maintains that a secret Pentagon strategy memo described a carefully orchestrated plan to make certain that no uncensored reporting would reach American shores. The memo categorically states,
"News media representatives will be escorted at all times... Repeat, all times" (MacArthur, 1992, p. 7). This real-life managed war bears considerable resemblance to George Orwells fictitious scenario, 1984,
in which the totalitarian country of Oceania is involved in a perpetual state of war with either Eurasia or Eastasia. The people are literally whipped into a collective frenzy
through censorship and propaganda that is carefully controlled by the Ministry of State. The citizens live in constant fear and are conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big
Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they would embrace the notion sold to them, "WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"
(Orwell, 1961, p. 7). These astonishingly similar works lend considerable credence to the notion that a government conspiracy is able to generate popular public support for a war the
people, in truth, know absolutely nothing about. It is a dangerous mind game that has, unfortunately, continues to be replayed throughout recent American history. First, as everyone now knows,
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