There are multiple copies of #Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; the story in which Big Brother is always watching and the state has established near-total control over body and mind.
“The situation now in #Russia is similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four,” librarian Alexandra Karaseva tells me. “Total control by the government, the state and the security structures.”
Pretend? really?
Reminds me of a book I've read about bookstores' fun moments, and one was about a customer who wanted to buy books just to put at his house and makes him looks so smart. LOL
But, I've read #Tolkien, Jackson, #Atwood, #Orwell and more ! #Booksworm#books#Readers
Pretend? really?
Reminds me of a book I've read about bookstores' fun moments, and one was about a customer who wanted to buy books just to put at his house and makes him looks so smart. LOL
But, I've read #Tolkien, Jackson, #Atwood, #Orwell and more ! #Booksworm#books#Readers
In 1984 zat ik in het laatste jaar van de middelbare school. Op onze leeslijst Engels (ja, we hadden leeslijsten, voor Nederlands waren dat een 12-tal boeken als ik me goed herinner, zou dat nu nog zo zijn?) mag je raden wat er dat jaar op het menu stond. Na 40 jaar heb ik 1984 opnieuw ter hand genomen. En ik kan niet stoppen met lezen. Vermoedelijk kan ik het nu beter appreciëren dan als onwetende 17-jarige in 1984. #1984#orwell
I just finished reading this amazing book, ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Neil Postman that compares both Orwell’s 1984 with Huxley’s Brave New World. His conclusion from the beginning was that Huxley was correct in his prediction of the future and that television is the driving force to make people to be more and more uneducated. This short book was written in 1985 and yet, still stands the test of time. #books#neilpostman#huxley#orwell#bookstodon@bookstodon
"US spy agencies purchased Americans' phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director."
Zur Strategie des neuen Totalitarismus gehört auch, Begriffe zu besetzen + ins Gegenteil umzudeuten oder ihnen jede Bedeutung + damit die Alarmfunktion zu nehmen - wie einst bei #Orwell durch #Neusprech.
Deshalb ist es gut, wenn bei wichtigen Begriffen verhindert wird, dass sie beliebig verwendet + dadurch sinnentleert werden.
People need to stop calling pro-#democracy for ‘pro-#western’. It’s as bizzare as using the term ‘the global south’ and tying it to pro-#dictatorship. Democracies or dictatorships are not tied to a geographical location. The term western is an invented term to group mostly democracies into some kind of enemy in the fashion of #Orwell’s 1984.
"However bad #Orwell's attitudes toward women were, the warning he gave us in “1984” was not that society might someday become so twisted that women would criticize him. [#1984] was a warning against the kind of leaders who call their opponents “vermin" . . . it was written about leaders who become cult figures, whose idealized image is plastered everywhere as a symbol of belonging, who hold rallies at which their followers join to scream in ecstatic hatred."