Please read this essay by John Pilger which ends with the following comparison:
In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form that mesmerised Germans; it was her 'Triumph of the Will' that reputedly cast Hitler's spell. I asked her about propaganda in societies that imagined themselves superior. She replied that the "messages" in her films were dependent not on "orders from above" but on a "submissive void" in the German population. "Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie?" I asked. "Everyone," she replied, "and of course the intelligentsia."
http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-return-of-george-orwell-and-big-brothers-war-on-palestine-ukraine-and-truth
Nobody gives a damn about George Orwell's warnings any more. We've all gone down the same road as Winston Smith ... and reached the same destination:
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
And why not love Big Brother? He has promised us everything we could ever need or want. He preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: he anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. It's not his fault that Bush got in his way and prevented his hopes and dreams from being realized.
It's all our fault.
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