#Newspeak

If you're missing a truly idiotic take on Orwell, and would like it topped off with a quote from an awful Douglas Adams book (and I say that as a

independent journalist

Describing the use of words/ phrases like "cis" & "people who menstruate" as orwellian shows you havent understood the textBecause the point of newspeak was to remove language to control

Uud Bilaw Manus

india as umberto eco's 14 points cult of tradition rejection of modernism cult of action for actions sake disagreement is treason fear of difference appeal to social frustration obsession with

a male plant to take feminism down from the inside

This was posted as a joke but this is what I mean when I say that calling women "people with cervixes" is the most privileged thing in the world. Most

Radical Catholic

As someone who's studied IE etymology in some depth, I can tell you there's no bottom to this particular barrel; you can find culture and worldview intertwined in language all

Bloomberg Opinion

So why is 1984 suddenly relevant again?With the shrinking of basic freedoms, the rewriting of history and erosion of language and culture – have Orwell’s prophecies been fulfilled? @Bershidsky says

Hilary Abernathay. Some #Covid19 & #Nexit for all?

atatimelikethis

Has anyone done the http://gov.uk fresh new start?My Brexit is over 200 pages of fresh new admin.How it's going to bring me new potential opportunities when it's eliminated so many

Bloomberg Opinion

“Reading “1984” closely is both sickening and cathartic because so much is instantly recognizable.”@Bershidsky just finished the fifth Russian translation of Orwell’s famous novel. This is the book's Russian historyhttps://bloom.bg/35BiP2A

Robert Saunders

As Orwell understood, waging war against imaginary enemies serves to entrench abritrary power, not to challenge it. If @BBradley_Mans shares Orwell's concerns about diversity of thought, tolerance of dissent &

What if I only responded to TRA’s using quotes from 1984 “Elliott Page has always been a man, we’ve changed his Wikipedia page” “‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party

Philosopher Kin

Academics don't yet know it (nor anyone else, it seems), but the West is divided into two camps: Pot vs. #ContraPot.Pot stands for the global #MeltingPot, which in the parlance

bitcoinpasada⚡

A thread on bubbles: I sat down with a friend today and compared responses to Trump's morning tweets. What we found were that very few responses were shared between our

American Iron Front

There's always discussion about what exactly qualifies a movement as fascist. For anyone looking to delve into this topic, we recommend starting with Umberto Eco's 1995 essay published in the

Father Spodo Komodo

Fourteen Properties of a Fascist Ideology in Scottish football. False accusations of racism by Celtic fans made me think about racism and fascism in Scottish football. In 1995 the Italian

Safara Cathasa R. R.

Berhubung Juni masih ada 15 hari lagi, dan banyak bersliweran di TL, ku mau menambah reading challange yang digagas oleh Kak @hzboy, #Baca1984Bareng.Kalo mau ikutan, bisa cek thread di bawah~https://twitter.com/hzboy/status/1265619314477944

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍

The theory behind vaccination is that you expose the immune system to a small, benign dose of a disease in order to prime it against future exposures. And now you