To which I replied (I couldn't resist!)Why Book are Safer than TV
I'm not in an overly paranoid mood... At least I wasn't until I read this article. Comcast turning our televisions into two-way devices? Cameras in our sets watching us? Surely you jest...
So my writer friends, the possibilities are endless. Anyone wanna come up with a good story/script/play?
And you, in the corner, we don't want to see that! COVER UP!
Okay, bear with me on this great idea. it's completely original, i swear.
There's this big Party, and they watch the people through big TV sets with cameras in them -- we'll call them telescreens. The head of the Party's name is.. well, let's make him SOUND friendly so people will trust him... Big Daddy.. no, that's too authoritative... Big Brother! There we go!
And we could name our main character Winston, after the cigarettes. And he works in a place that rewrites everything into whatever the Party thinks it should be, including history. Since the Party likes nice names for its evil stuff, we'll do something contradictory and call it the Ministry of Truth (when it's not! hah! take that, literalists!). Naturally, we can make the Ministry of Peace (die, scumbags!) and the Ministry of Love (where they torture you with your greatest fear, like... rats! cause, you know, they hate you).
Naturally, Winston tries to join the underground guys fighting against Big Brother. Stories like this suck without love, so he'll fall in love with a girl. What's a girly name.. uh.. Julia. So Winston and Julia get hitched, but then they get busted by the Party and thrown into Torture The Rebels 101 classroom (also known as Room 101), where they are subsequently brainwashed and released back into society.
Obviously, this is in the not-so-distant future. Let's say it takes place in, oh... 2084.
Can you feel it? Can you feel the smartassery? I am the king of smartassery.
Pwnd.
