Two Minute Hate Speech

When is the last time you read "1984? Here's a clip from the film, which is great, and worth viewing. This is so exemplified by the McCain/Palin rallies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_C992KPzKs&feature=related

"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretense was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."

And the movie as good as it was could not due the book justice.
That whole chapter with the two minute hate is profound and so relevant now.
Some times i think the rethugs used the book as a play book for their power grab.

Bread and circuses, minus the bread.