Title: Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate — Digital Spy
Headings: Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate
Orwell's 1984 and the Two Minute Hate
Content: The proles (the uneducated working class) are told to hate certain people, and they gather around their tv screens every day for a "2 minute Hate" - a kind of outpouring or hatred, directed at a single person who is the enemy of the State. Here's a quote from George Orwell's 1984: " 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." Remind you of anything? Like a typical Friday night eviction episode? Ironically, the object of hatred, is simply a construct - not even real. In the same way, we are manipulated into hating people who have been heavily edited and put in a bizarre situation where most people would not be able to cope without having their personalities break down. What we hate isn't real - it's completely manipulated.