Elect George Orwell Bush in 2004

Someday there will be no reality, only spin. Perhaps we're already there now. From ZNet:

The most chilling, openly Orwellian remarks recorded by Bubmiller came from G. Clotaire Rapaille, who Bubmiller describes as a "French-born medical anthropologist who has done psychological consumer research for clients like Seagram, Proctor and Gamble, and Ford" (an imposing resume!). Rapaille has a different take on how Bush might overcome his terrible record to score his first victory in a presidential election. "Everything that happened yesterday," Rapaillle claimed, consistent with standard totalitarian doctrine, "is irrelevant." Rather than focus on past mistakes - being unprepared for the difficulties of the occupation - Bush's publicists should, Rapaille thinks, create friendly in-the-moment story lines about individual Iraqis who are now free to pursue their purely personal, private dreams: a young Iraqi child who wants "to study" and "become an engineer;" "a young [Iraqi] woman who wants to be married and have children;" a "guy who wants to start a shop to repair cars." "Right now," Rapaille told Bubmiller, "it's not that the president is not good, it's that the story is bad." (Bubmiller, New York Times, September 28, 2003, sec. 4. p.1).

Rapaille warns the White House against selling their occupation with "statistics" about tedious stuff like the number of schools and hospitals being built in Iraq. That sort of material is "kind of boring," says Rapaill, who is attuned to the rampant social and political Attention Deficit Disorder and related entertainment addiction spread amongst the populace by MTV and the like. "The important thing," Bubmiller learned from Rapaille, "is to tell a story."

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