Re: New Blake's Seven

constantine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Peter Constantine) writes:
> doom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>> I think the Orwell novel "1984" did an excellent job of holding
>> back this particular tide.  For many years, "that sounds like
>> something out of '1984'" was an effective argument. 
>> 
>> I guess the question would be why it *stopped* being an 
>> effective argument.
>
> I guess that the answer would be because there came a point at which the
> statement "that sounds like something out of '1984'" made more people
> think of a Van Halen album than of a George Orwell novel...


But wouldn't that make it an even *more* effective argument? 


(All right, some times I'm a little slow.)