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The book publisher Penguin is printing more copies of George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984" in response to a sudden surge of demand.
On Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning the book was #1 on Amazon's computer-generated list of best-selling books.
[...] "We put through a 75,000 copy reprint this week. That is a substantial reprint and larger than our typical reprint for '1984,'" a Penguin spokesman told CNNMoney Tuesday evening.
[...] According to Nielsen BookScan, which measures most but not all book sales in the United States, "1984" sold 47,000 copies in print since Election Day in November. That is up from 36,000 copies over the same period the prior year.
When the submitter visited amazon.com, the book was ranked #3.
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- The Guardian
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:54PM
I'm not sure if you're directing that at me, or at Trump and those who take him at his word. For the sake of comity I'll assume it's the latter; if not you can clarify and we can revisit the subject of who's an idiot.
Honestly it's facile to lay out narrative like it comprises discrete strata, that are clearly defined, qualitatively, quantumly different. In terms of statecraft and politics, which is what we're talking about here, it's all narrative, and how successful you are at getting your narrative accepted by the most people. It's a conceit of so many who live within partisan realities that their narrative is based purely on fact, while their opponents dwell in a realm of fantasy. They're both mistaken. There is much myth-making going on on both sides.
I have liked to think that progressives are less credulous than others, but checking in on HuffingtonPost and other outlets since the election I am not so sure anymore. It's embarrassing to see them reduced to drooling mouthbreathers, too.
Where Trump has arrived seems to me to be a natural progression of the discursive shearing that has been going on for several decades. When the official narrative of how things are going differs too much from reality for too long, a critical loss of credibility occurs and the invisible social contract that keeps everybody going to work and paying their taxes and obeying the law begins to shear and shred. We have arrived at the moment in which the elites no longer pretend to care or play by the rules and feel completely empowered to say whatever they feel like without consequences. Trump is only bumping that up a notch. The only thing he has going for him at the moment is that enough people still believe that he's gonna go after the elites. When realization sinks in that he's only scamming them like every one of his predecessors, we're going to be in for one doozy of a time.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @01:29PM
Where Trump has arrived seems to me to be a natural progression of the discursive shearing that has been going on for several decades. When the official narrative of how things are going differs too much from reality for too long, a critical loss of credibility occurs and the invisible social contract that keeps everybody going to work and paying their taxes and obeying the law begins to shear and shred. We have arrived at the moment
Missing from your analysis is the collapse of conservative media into an orbit around foxnews and the limbaugh crew. Conservatives are demonstrably less omnivorous in their media consumption than liberals. [alternet.org] They've coalesced into an echo chamber that deliberately misrepresents reality because outrage makes money. [vox.com] Karl Rove himself said that solutions are no longer the result of studying reality. [wikipedia.org]
You think Trump is the result of people believing their own eyes over the lies of the elite. Trump is the result of them believing the lies of the elite over their own eyes.