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21. Two-Minutes Hate sounds a lot like two minutes of certain news outlets.
From 1984:Winston remembers the moment before that day’s Two Minutes Hate, an assembly during which Party orators whip the populace into a frenzy of hatred against the enemies of Oceania. It’s true that certain news networks skew information and stir the pot to create fear and frenzy to keep us united against a common enemy and afraid of what would become of us without our own Big Brother to stand guard.