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This famous SuperBowl ad for the Macintosh, was this bizarre American century notion against the notion of conformity and all that gala ...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/R706isyDrqI

My question is whether or not this ad was premature?

Perhaps today, 2014, is more the real 1984 of Orwell. Think about it, in 1988, the NSF put out a fake report on STEM shortages. In a few years, that report was deemed a fraud. Then, in 2000, outsourcing STEM work was deemed necessary and now, once again, the govt is claiming a STEM shortage.

All of the above, harkens back to Orwell's doubletalk but today, that's more common than anything else.

Maybe that Apple ad was too early? In 1984, a lot of middle class ppl had jobs and a seemingly stable future, and thus, saw the whole Orwell thing as some sort of postWWII fantasy anxiety but now, it's much more real than ever before because ppl will turn on each other, for the hope that some company will keep 'em on their payroll and not, offshore their jobs or put in a robot to replace them.