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by HungryGuy on February 3rd, 2006

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What are "information purification directives"?

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  • by Anonymous on February 3rd, 2006

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    {Added 07 February 2006:  The first paragraph of my original answer below will make a bit more sense if you know that the question was originally posted in the “Mormon Religion” category, and was later moved here, along with my answer.}

      I didn't enter this question, and I don't know who did.  I suppose that whomever did enter this question assumed that since I am most prominently seen in the Mormonism categories, that a rather odd bit of text in my profile must have something to do with Mormonism, and that that is why this question was entered in this category.  In fact, this has nothing at all to do with Mormonism.

      It's from a very famous commercial, first run by Apple Computer during the 1984 Super Bowl, announcing the first Macintosh computer.

      The commercial is inspired by George Orwell's famous novel, “1984“, and shows a young athletic woman, carrying a sledge hammer, being chased by guards, through an Orwellian setting.  Big Brother (an allegory for IBM and the IBM-PC/MS-DOS platform as it then existed) is giving a speech.  The woman runs into an auditorium, where a large number of people are seated watching Big Brother's speech on a huge TV screen; and she throws the hammer at that large screen, shattering it just as Big Brother finishes the speech.  The scene fades, as an announcer says, “On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like ‘1984.’”

      The text in my profile is Big Brother's speech as given in that commercial:

    »   “Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information
    »    Purification Directives.  We have created, for the first time in all history,
    »    a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from
    »    the pests purveying contradictory truths.  Our Unification of Thoughts
    »    is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.  We are one
    »    people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.  Our enemies shall talk
    »    themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.
    »    We shall prevail!”

      As of this writing, the commercial is available for downloading and viewing at these URLs:

        http://www.uriahcarpenter.info/1984.html  (13 megabyte version)
        http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/1984_mac_ad.html (13 and 5 megabyte versions)

      See also:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_%28television_commercial%29

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