{"id":4930,"date":"2017-01-20T07:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:18:22","slug":"this-seems-oddly-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/20\/this-seems-oddly-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"This Seems Oddly Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was making a list of the way things are going around here and I suddenly realized I&#8217;ve seen this before&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mass surveillance of citizens<\/li>\n<li>Small, wealthy ruling party<\/li>\n<li>No speaking out against the ruler<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Truth&#8221; defined by what the party says<\/li>\n<li>Prosecution of those who speak against the party\/leader<\/li>\n<li>Figurehead larger-than-life leader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe George Orwell got it wrong &#8211; it&#8217;s not English Socialism in Oceana, it&#8217;s American Socialism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2017\/01\/ingsoc-wallpaper-red.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4932\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/20\/this-seems-oddly-familiar\/ingsoc-wallpaper-red\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2017\/01\/ingsoc-wallpaper-red.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ingsoc wallpaper (red)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" 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\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disturbing dystopian similarities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,2,17],"tags":[414,415,385,392],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-opinion","category-politics","category-society","tag-414","tag-dystopia","tag-politics","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/11\/1984-was-not-supposed-to-be-an-instruction-manual.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1hw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4941,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/25\/a-party-in-denial\/","url_meta":{"origin":4930,"position":0},"title":"A 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