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H.G. Wells and Orwell on Whether Science Can Save Humanity
H.G. Wells and Orwell on Whether Science Can Save Humanity Though Wells and Orwell were debating in the era of Nazism, many of their arguments reverberate today. In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth […]
Ever more official lies from the US government
Ever more official lies from the US government The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopian novel 1984. Consider the constant morphing of “the Muslim threat” from al-Qaeda to the Taliban, to al-Nusra, to ISIS to ISIL, to Daesh with a jump to Russia. […]
Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” vs. Orwell’s “1984”
Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” vs. Orwell’s “1984” Definition of UTOPIA 1: an imaginary and indefinitely remote place 2: a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions 3: an impractical scheme for social improvement Definition of DYSTOPIA 1: an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often […]
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed […]
5 things George Orwell understood
5 things George Orwell understood Famed author implores us to be vigilant, and to keep the faiths of decency, tolerance and humanity George Orwell at the BBC in 1941. The insights of his books and many other writings still resonate today. (Penguin Books India) Related Stories The Orwell Tapes, Part 1 The Orwell Tapes, Part […]
Letter from Europe
Letter from Europe Dear Sir , Inside of 25 years I’ve observed the shift of the mass-media in Europe from somehow different and somehow independent /original and free as much the official media can be in this “democracy-capitalism” to a “European Media” which is absolutely identical and absolutely uniformity qua content, being different only the […]
Dystopian Fiction of Yesterday is the NWO of Tomorrow: “The Shift is Toward Totalitarianism”
Dystopian Fiction of Yesterday is the NWO of Tomorrow: “The Shift is Toward Totalitarianism” Many of the things that are happening this very moment have direct parallels in literature of the past. Whether it is an account such as the “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn or a work of “fiction” such as “1984” by George Orwell […]
Where Does the Future Lie?
Where Does the Future Lie? QUESTION: Are you more worried about a 1984 esque future or A Brave New World esque future? ANSWER: Unfortunately, the two go hand in hand. George Orwell simply took the past and laid out what government ALWAYS gravitates toward – total control. We live in a delusion with our brains filled with […]
The New Mind Control
The New Mind Control The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do March 02, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Aeon” – Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer […]
The new mind control
The new mind control The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do Photo by Corbis Are search engines and social media sites manipulating the important decisions we make every day? Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern […]
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials […]
Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
WHY DO WE EXPOSE OURSELVES? AMONG CRITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell’s Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon — a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which […]
License to Kill
License to Kill Jakub Rozalski [This post is, once again, a rerun, but its subject seems quite timely. As you watch the political establishment in the US go through its usual antics, ask yourself: are they even capable of understanding the fact that they have already lost the empire?] The story is the same every […]
George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War
George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war. It’s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our produce-consume existence. Our screens with all the […]
Fourth Turning–Our Rendezvous With Destiny
FOURTH TURNING – OUR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY We are now in the seventh year of this Fourth Turning. A famous quote from the seventh year of the last Fourth Turning portended the desperate, bloody and ultimately heroic trials and tribulations which awaited generations of our ancestors. What will be our rendezvous with destiny? “There is a […]
