#Orwell

Michael Wood

mayavision

‘He who controls the past controls future. He who controls the present controls the past.’ Curtailing the study of history -along with the absurd idea that it should not be

Nowhere Girl

Gwynnion

The anxiety white men feel about a Huxleyan "pleasant dystopia" not only feeds into their contempt for liberal society but assuredly helps them ignore the Orwellian brutality inflected by the

Ben Bradley MP

BBradley_Mans

The comparisons with #Orwell & 1984 now too numerous to ignore. It's something of a parody of a prediction of course (you hope), but the early days of #IngSoc and

Poⵣeidon

PoDZeidoon

[Thread] George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903–1950)« A cinquante ans, chacun a le visage qu’il mérite », écrivait George Orwell. A moins de 50 ans, le sien était devenu une

M'am' Mina

Mam_Mina

Et si tous les autres acceptent le mensonge imposé par le Parti, si tous les autres récits concordent avec lui, ce même mensonge passe dans l’histoire et devient vérité. « Qui

Akash Shetye

AkashShetye

I'm actually reading some old texts on these free speech debates to see if they can inform my thinking. One thing that's noticeable is many of them are written when

mishi ☾ check rts.

_cmaHeal

something irks me with how someone’s only connection or relation or empathy to someone else’s trauma is through a fictional realm,particularly in an online environment. things in fiction can be

Peter C (최현규)

lama657

Man humans are the most shameless pathetic species in the history of earth biology.We just came up with philosophy and science and all sorts of garbage just to make it

Ben Shapiro

benshapiro

The West is consistently under the grave misimpression that other countries think like we do. Thus, because we have become materialists above all else, if we levy sanctions and threaten

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Black people who have made it economically are now facing pressure to align with a definition of “peace” and “violence” that serves white supremacy. We are being told that if

SelfMadeHero

SelfMadeHero

“WHEN YOU CAN’T KEEP GOING, GO FASTER!” This famous quotation, by the Olympic runner and Czech national hero Emil Zátopek, has struck a new chord here at SelfMadeHero. It hasn’t

Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن

EveKeneinan

On a different subject, I plan to say a few things about Haidt's moral foundations theory. Leftists tend to regard conservatives as "lacking empathy" — this is because leftists are

Apoorva Shah

Mister_Shah

As a libertarian, it’s easy to see what @realDonaldTrump and his administration are doing is the early stages of Orwell’s “non-fiction” book 1984. Our liberties are being stripped away on

Onye Nkuzi

cchukudebelu

My first consulting job took me to Kano. We were housed in a guest house. The senior manager was Brazilian, the big boss was Nigerian.The senior manager was automatically housed

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Pulitzer got an Orwell.https://twitter.com/pulitzercenter/status/1264778977945833475 Wow, this is worth reading. They give "evolving" definitions! I'll have to share my own. They affirm the dogma. Journalism and education are

Stephen Wigmore

stephen_wigmore

He didn't just support the Iraq War, he relished it, applauded it, wrote books defending it.He seemed to fantasise about fighting and killing, describing his "exhilaration" after 9/11 and "Osama