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	<description>Toys are serious business.</description>
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		<title>By: Valdrax</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-123906</link>
		<dc:creator>Valdrax</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Orwell never really spoke of corporate power and corporate nationhood.  Other dystopian novelists covered that better, especially cyberpunk authors and those influenced by them.

It&#039;s good to know Orwell, but it&#039;s better to read more.  I recommend:
* &quot;Neuromancer,&quot; &quot;Count Zero,&quot; and &quot;Mona Lisa Overdrive,&quot; by William Gibson.
* &quot;The Stars My Destination,&quot; by Alfred Bester.  (Also, unrelated, but his book &quot;The Demolished Man&quot; is equally fast-paced and full of awesome.)
* &quot;Market Forces,&quot; by Richard Morgan.
* &quot;Brave New World,&quot; by Aldus Huxley, of course.  (Though more statist than my other examples, it is a satire of American consumer culture.)
* &quot;The Space Merchants,&quot; by Frederick Pohl.
* &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1164&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Iron Heel&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; by Jack London.
* &quot;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&quot; by Philip K. Dick (the inspiration for Blade Runner).  Really, anything by Philip K. Dick has a marvelously depressing edge.

All of these deal with corporations and/or consumer society with a terrifying grip on society.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Orwell never really spoke of corporate power and corporate nationhood.  Other dystopian novelists covered that better, especially cyberpunk authors and those influenced by them.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s good to know Orwell, but it&#8217;s better to read more.  I recommend:<br />
* &#8220;Neuromancer,&#8221; &#8220;Count Zero,&#8221; and &#8220;Mona Lisa Overdrive,&#8221; by William Gibson.<br />
* &#8220;The Stars My Destination,&#8221; by Alfred Bester.  (Also, unrelated, but his book &#8220;The Demolished Man&#8221; is equally fast-paced and full of awesome.)<br />
* &#8220;Market Forces,&#8221; by Richard Morgan.<br />
* &#8220;Brave New World,&#8221; by Aldus Huxley, of course.  (Though more statist than my other examples, it is a satire of American consumer culture.)<br />
* &#8220;The Space Merchants,&#8221; by Frederick Pohl.<br />
* &#8220;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1164" rel="nofollow">The Iron Heel</a>,&#8221; by Jack London.<br />
* &#8220;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&#8221; by Philip K. Dick (the inspiration for Blade Runner).  Really, anything by Philip K. Dick has a marvelously depressing edge.</p>
<p>All of these deal with corporations and/or consumer society with a terrifying grip on society.</p>
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		<title>By: Fisher</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-115271</link>
		<dc:creator>Fisher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s Buy-n-Large.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s Buy-n-Large.</p>
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		<title>By: Narf</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-113117</link>
		<dc:creator>Narf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your comment -was- pretty ill-conceived, dude. :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your comment -was- pretty ill-conceived, dude. <img src='http://www.shortpacked.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: RedScharron</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-110543</link>
		<dc:creator>RedScharron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(And an archive binge allows me to respond to an ancient response that will never be seen. Hooray?)

... That&#039;s not really where I was going with that. The line of thinking I was following was the companies in question eventually buying countries as well (&#039;countries&#039; falling under the umbrella of &#039;everything in the world&#039; last I checked) at which point they&#039;d &lt;I&gt;become&lt;/i&gt; the government. But thanks for assuming that I&#039;d missed the point of the novel because I made a joke that twisted the backstory ever so slightly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(And an archive binge allows me to respond to an ancient response that will never be seen. Hooray?)</p>
<p>&#8230; That&#8217;s not really where I was going with that. The line of thinking I was following was the companies in question eventually buying countries as well (&#8216;countries&#8217; falling under the umbrella of &#8216;everything in the world&#8217; last I checked) at which point they&#8217;d <i>become</i> the government. But thanks for assuming that I&#8217;d missed the point of the novel because I made a joke that twisted the backstory ever so slightly.</p>
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		<title>By: Freejack</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-104924</link>
		<dc:creator>Freejack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or a game store</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or a game store</p>
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		<title>By: Dreadjaws</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-98817</link>
		<dc:creator>Dreadjaws</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well crap, now they also own Lucasarts.  It&#039;s happening!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well crap, now they also own Lucasarts.  It&#8217;s happening!</p>
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		<title>By: PetrePan</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-95011</link>
		<dc:creator>PetrePan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This comment bothers me so much. Orwell was talking about the world getting taken over by big government, not big monopolies. IMHO both are bad, but gah, get your literary ideologies right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This comment bothers me so much. Orwell was talking about the world getting taken over by big government, not big monopolies. IMHO both are bad, but gah, get your literary ideologies right.</p>
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		<title>By: RedScharron</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-94325</link>
		<dc:creator>RedScharron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eh, to be fair that one&#039;s probably only a matter of time. Eventually everything in the world will be owned by Disney, Google, or Coca-Cola and that&#039;s when we find out just how accurate Orwell was.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eh, to be fair that one&#8217;s probably only a matter of time. Eventually everything in the world will be owned by Disney, Google, or Coca-Cola and that&#8217;s when we find out just how accurate Orwell was.</p>
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		<title>By: chrisleech</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-62354</link>
		<dc:creator>chrisleech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if you wish to get paid for being rude to the customers you should go and work at a coffee shop</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if you wish to get paid for being rude to the customers you should go and work at a coffee shop</p>
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		<title>By: L</title>
		<link>http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/12-ethans-strawman/interrogation/#comment-56912</link>
		<dc:creator>L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As infuriating as it is, and I can&#039;t believe I&#039;m saying this: Galasso&#039;s got a point. At least from the business point of view.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As infuriating as it is, and I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m saying this: Galasso&#8217;s got a point. At least from the business point of view.</p>
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