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1. Chennai Poromboke Paadal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82jFyeV5AHM
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2. “In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen. The little sandy-haired woman had turned bright pink, and her mouth was opening and shutting like that of a landed fish. Even O’Brien’s heavy face was flushed. He was sitting very straight in his chair, his powerful chest swelling and quivering as though he were standing up to the assault of a wave. The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’ and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. It struck Goldstein’s nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably. In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair. The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence 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.”- From 1984 by George Orwell
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2. “Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”- From 1984 by George Orwell
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(https://archive.org/details/Orwell1984preywo/mode/2up)
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Glossary:
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Newspeak -
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It is the official language of the fictional world in the novel. It was devised to meet the ideals of the ruling and only political party. Its aim is to remove all 'unnecessary' word. The purpose of this is to that removing words removes ways to define anti-Party feelings and the ability to disagree. An example of Newspeak is having ungood instead of bad. More can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#List_of_Newspeak_words
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Two Minutes Hate -
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It is the daily, public period during which members of the ruling Party must watch a film depicting the enemies of the state to openly and loudly express hatred for them. More can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
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Related readings:
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- Scroogled by Cory Doctorow https://craphound.com/scroogled.html)
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