What the hell?
Two minutes of hate, grossly neglected by Van Halen on their album, 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.”
…the peeps at The Wikipedia boil it down like this:
The Two Minutes Hate, from George Orwell‘s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting the Party’s enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them for exactly two minutes.
Basically, a bunch of people, influenced by propaganda, going off half-cocked about shit they know very little to nothing about. Or, smug people on Facebook & Twitter being smug. Two Minutes of Hate is the stuff that keeps you from hating truly hateful stuff like multi-trillion dollar debt, warrantless wiretaps and drone strikes. Or a guy with a blog waxing on about stuff he doesn’t know much aboot.
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