{"id":3466,"date":"2011-01-19T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:16:27","slug":"fiendish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3466","title":{"rendered":"Fiendish!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was, as my eight loyal readers might expect, nonplussed with the DNT’s editorial calling on Duluthians to participate in the selection of a new Superintendent to stick his\/her fingers in the holes of Dr. Dixon’s dike. I took their comment<\/a> that many people regarded Dixon as being a “fiend” as sarcasm. Its true people regard Dixon as a liar, a cheat, and a smooth talker. Perhaps that’s the only kind of person we could have entrusted our District to to solve long neglected problems. (Now I’m being sarcastic<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Of today’s story about Dixon’s “upbeat”<\/a> videotaped state of the School District speech I make these observations.<\/p>\n

1. Turning a speech into a videotaped product makes it more useful for propaganda.<\/p>\n

2. The speech could still have been videotaped during the school board meeting. <\/p>\n

3. Taping it in a studio environment denied the school board members of an opportunity to quiz the Superintendent about his glowing remarks.<\/p>\n

4. “Big Brother” used to communicate with his people this way.<\/p>\n

5. “Big Brother” was a hollow shell too.<\/p>\n

It rather reminds of what Emmanual Goldstein, the “enemy of the state” said of Big Brother in Orwell’s 1984<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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