Tag: George Orwell
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Make Orwell Fiction Again
George Orwell never intended Nineteen Eighty-Four to become a prophecy. He wrote it as a warning. Published in 1949, the novel reflected his fears after witnessing fascism, Stalinism, and the rise of modern propaganda. Orwell believed that freedom could disappear not only through military conquest but also through gradual political and technological change. A society…
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Dystopia: People don’t do things because of morality
Well-read people are fully aware that people do things because of resources (in today’s society: money, stocks, cars, and so on) and not morality. Of course, we have complex submissive-dominant relationships, which may be based on morality (for example, paramedics), and people promote which relationships should exist (for example, the police, firefighters), but people don’t…
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Supressing dissent in the age of Orwell
Totalitarian and autocratical regimes have a lot of experience with supressing dissent . I was born in the democratical Czechoslovakia (the nowadays Czech Republic). And people had a lot to say about how well the communists were good at oppressing dissidents and opposite opinions, stances and attitudes. However, the current Western world’s establishment, no matter…