#Orwell

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The American magazine Newsweek suggested how dictators #putin, #Trump, and Xi #Jinping will divide the world into spheres of influence.

#Europe, will we tolerate this?

Ignoring the fact that this map was copied from #Orwell's 1984, it's not realistic in any way - #Russia, with an economy the size of the Iberian peninsula, has absolutely zero chance of invading all of Europe.

It's a delusional fantasy with no basis in reality.

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First they ban them, then they burn them #Orwell #1984 #fascism #totalitarian #ukpol
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads?CMP=share_btn_url

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print (or Ticktoks, or reels, or whatever)

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it it possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active.

5....

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While freely conceding that the Trumpublican regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the American people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.

#Orwell #USPol

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Face Plant

If you want a picture of the future, imagine Mickey Mouse’s shoe stamping on a human face — forever.

(After George Orwell, 1984)

Digital death. This was absolutely predictable considering the surveillance tech recently developed. Flick of a switch, and the person is disappeared, and also 'outlawed'. Unpersoned. #Orwell

A quotation from Orwell

   In the queerest way, pleasure and disgust are linked together. The human body is beautiful: it is also repulsive and ridiculous, a fact which can be verified at any swimming pool. The sexual organs are objects of desire and also of loathing, so much so that in many languages, if not in all languages, their names are used as words of abuse. Meat is delicious, but a butcher’s shop makes one feel sick: and indeed all our food springs ultimately from dung and dead bodies, the two things which of all others seem to us the most horrible. A child, when it is past the infantile stage but still looking at the world with fresh eyes, is moved by horror almost as often as by wonder – horror of snot and spittle, of the dogs’ excrement on the pavement, the dying toad full of maggots, the sweaty smell of grown-ups, the hideousness of old men, with their bald heads and bulbous noses.
   In his endless harping on disease, dirt and deformity, Swift is not actually inventing anything, he is merely leaving something out.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” Polemic, No. 5

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/76157/

We humans love to take a #cautionary #tale and use it as an #instruction #manual. The classic is of course George #Orwell's 1984.

Now it looks like the one the UK wants to implement next is Minority Report...

"there is potential for them to be misused for detrimental policies that target #refugees ."
Smarter refugee surveys for a more effective humanitarian response
#UNHCR #Orwell
https://medium.com/unhcr-innovation-service/smarter-refugee-surveys-for-a-more-effective-humanitarian-response-ceb9e83e1211

#libri #cultura #educazione #identità #Trump #Usa
#Bradbury #Orwell
Fahrenheit 1984.
Oggi per @larepubblica_it

Avec ce roman mélancolique, George Orwell réalise une comédie de mœurs, une satire de la classe moyenne et de la lâcheté ordinaire. Écrit après son expérience espagnole (voir Hommage à la Catalogne), on ne peut que comprendre son amertume vis-à-vis de l’indifférence ambiante face à la montée des totalitarismes.

https://bibliothequefahrenheit.blogspot.com/2025/02/un-peu-dair-frais.html#more

‘The effect of hijacked victimhood is to ‘delegitimize’ actual victims and redefine them as threatening. The powerful parties that hijack victimhood also cast their ‘political opposition as … morally polluted … [and] undermine a sense of legitimate opposition by presenting the opposition as malicious and evil victimizers…’’

https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/strategic-and-hijacked-victimhood/

"Es ist schon etwas Schönes, die Vernichtung von #Wörtern", schrieb George #Orwell vor rund 80 Jahren. In "#1984" befreit das Wahrheitsministerium die herkömmliche Sprache von unnötigen Worten oder Nebenbedeutungen - bis "die Begriffe fehlen, die das Denken formen". Was nicht den Vorstellungen "des großen Bruders" entspricht, wird vernichtet.“

#Sprache #Trump

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/donald-trump-diese-200-woerter-sollen-aus-us-regierungsdokumenten-verschwinden-a-7b7dc461-a924-4548-a083-b11c4843a651