The same thing has happened to the daily comics in the newspaper. They've gone PC too, and they mostly suck. It's a climate of controlled fear...that's what I call it. Orwell foresaw this kind of thing, but he didn't realize exactly what form it would take. He thought it would resemble Stalinism. It doesn't. It comes in a much shinier and better camouflaged marketing wrapper than was the case with Stalinism. It's far more sophisticated.