#Orwell

Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧

thomaschattwill

I've been rereading a lot of Camus and Baldwin lately. In No Name in the Street, Baldwin criticizes Camus (somewhat unfairly). Anyway, I never noticed it before but Baldwin makes

Elinor Elliot

ElliotElinor

We've seen enough of this government's behaviour by now to realise what is happening. A huge share of the blame and condemnation must now lie at the door of the

The Rose Knows

WhiteRoseAFA

1. I'm pleased to introduce you to the man behind the fascist bigot @OrwellNGoode persona. He writes articles for disinfo site @NationalFile and has authored two books. Meet Orwell N

NoPearlsForSwine

RealRiteNow

1984 and Brave New World were written by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Both members of the Fabian Society (Those that know) and tied to Tavistock. Their books were the

Tom London

TomLondon6

Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppressionBut in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy. People will come to

Trinh

Trinhnomics

According to George Orwell, the BBC was also more sympathetic to Stalin vs Churchill. Read his essay on the Freedom of the Press.https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1250126027264753664 Btw, that essay was supposed to be

Emma

AgarthaEmma

Think of the musician you are most passionate about Now think of your favorite songs by that musicianOdds are at least a few of them are obscure tracks/b sides or

Justin Little

Vernaculis

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1280869217429073920 Orwell is a figure who managed to carve out a much-needed niche of being anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and anti-Communist simultaneously. Orwell perceived Stalinism to be a neg

Anton John Crace

AntonCrace

Reflecting on Orwell's 1984, it is strange most of the focus of it in current contexts is doublespeak and surveillance.I personally think that misses the ultimate point of the text#COVIDー19.

Rob Henderson

robkhenderson

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937) "the ugly fact that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a classless society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

I genuinely think it's time to cancel OrwellNot because he was personally problematic or had problematic politics (though there's an argument for both)But because his Internet fanbase are the most

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

Dr. Emily Friedman

friede

The finalists for the "add a new text to this course" are in! And it is an amazing list. A reminder: the course is the sophomore-level British literature post-1789, taught

The Stoic

StoicMDJ

I’ve always found it fascinating that George Orwell, perhaps the most brilliant critic of all-powerful government run amok, actually identified as a Socialist. George Bernard Shaw is another one. Reading

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

This was almost my point from the beginning. If you read my essay on it (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/08/2-plus-2-never-equals-5/) you'll see. The deviation from this point is that applied postmodernists (or critical ones)

Thomas

Turtrain

3. For English, we had to read English literature. A big genre within English literature were dystopian novels. A dystopia is basically a government controlled society where you just get