George Orwell’s 1984: Football beer and gambling made them easy to control
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by Eurymanthus Critics slam timing of Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ to Police Internet for ‘Disinformation’ Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/critics-slam-timing-of-bidens-ministry-of-truth-to-police-internet-for-disinformation/ar-AAWHidg Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984: https://bookanalysis.com/1984/ministry-of-truth/ The name “Ministry of Truth” is a misnomer. It is misnamed as those within its walls actually …
From Matt Taibbi’s Substack: From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we’ve become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted. This weekend I re-read 1984, a book I tend to reach for when I get Defcon-1 depressed …
by ElegantDecline The man was lucky that he was born when he was, and that he wrote his book “1984” when he did, a few years after WWII ended, in the early days of the cold war. Because if he had …
This isn’t even a Opinion Piece. The School System educated the masses. And now the Elites who run the Schools are upset over Critical Thinking from doing your own Research! The problem is that most people simply don’t know …
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Life as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984 “could come to pass in 2024” if lawmakers don’t protect the public against artificial intelligence, Microsoft’s president has warned. Speaking to BBC’s Panorama, Brad Smith said it will be “difficult to catch up” …
via caseyresearch: Justin’s note: Stop saying offensive words. That’s what the Associated Press (AP), the world’s largest news agency, is telling reporters. The AP puts out a stylebook every year that includes universal guidelines for stylistic matters like punctuation, capitalization, and even word choice. …
by lilganj710 And the most ironic thing about it is that Orwell was trying to disparage authoritarianism, but his imaginary dystopia has only become real in good old capitalist ‘Murica. In case you haven’t read 1984, the society which the …
Orwell-book leaks more data, hundreds of millions of users exposed in “public” database https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqsZ9C5L3JI
by axolotl_peyotl Many researchers have pointed to the connection between the birth of the European Union, its increasingly Draconian policies, and the machinations of what some have referred to as a “Fascist International.” Indeed, prior to the end of WWII, …
George Orwell wrote his vision of a dystopian future back in 1949. The Book “1984” was a warning to the future. And yet here we are ruining the lives of a child over a smirk. Facecrime might not be a …
An Appropriate quote from 1984, was Orwell a Psychic? This is clearly where we are going with the beginning of the Purge style censorship. Scary times friends, its going to get interesting when we are all silenced like in Communist …
I set ddg as my default a while ago and never looked back. Combined with cookie auto-delete and everything else I get pure uncurated results. h/t kanyesizedego
by Thinker This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog on power – formally abandons the task. This is the moment when it positively embraces …
Seems like Britain is becoming 1984 Orwellian style with the new set of laws. Do you really want this for the U.S ? https://youtu.be/8XqUYgIpeFg h/t zerocool7777
Hat tip to Lucian Wintrich @ the Gateway Pundit for the quote. http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/behind-various-anti-gun-movements-popping-parkland/ I’m convinced not a single one of those morons actually read 1984. Here’s Orwell’s nightmare scenario in 1984 destruction of the family unit Thought police (offensive thoughts …