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Tag Archives: 1984
Techno-Censorship: The Slippery Slope from Censoring ‘Disinformation’ to Silencing Truth
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”― George Orwell This is the slippery slope that leads … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, artificial intelligence, censorship, civil liberties, Covid-19, Dystopia, fascism, free speech, George Orwell, Internet Freedom, Lockdowns, Pandemic, Social Media, Technocracy, Technofascism, thoughtcrime
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Newspeak in the 21st Century: How to Become a Model Citizen in the New Era of Domestic Warfare
By Cynthia Chung Source: Strategic Culture Foundation With President Biden’s inauguration many feel that they can finally breathe a deep sigh of relief. At last sanity has been restored and we can all go back to our predictable lives knowing … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, Empire, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, censorship, crimestop, culture, Doublethink, Dystopia, George Orwell, groupthink, Joe Biden, Newspeak, OldSpeak, Oligarchy, Patriot Act, propaganda, purges, society, thoughtcrime
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The 2020 Election Bamboozle: We Are All Victims of the Deep State’s Con Game
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We’re run by the Pentagon, we’re run by Madison Avenue, we’re run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don’t revolt we’ll have to go along with the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, media, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, Deep State, Duopoly, Dystopia, Election 2020, fake democracy, government propaganda, panopticon, Patrick McGoohan, police state, Privacy, Social Media, surveillance state, The Prisoner, voting
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The End of Reality?
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain In 1888, the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, Art, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, Doublethink, fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Futurism, George Orwell, Mathew Arnold, media, Media Literacy, Neil Postman, Paul Virilio, Peter Koenig, Philosophy, propaganda, Roberto Calasso, surveillance state, techno-fascism, Technocracy
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Dystopia Isn’t Sci-Fi—for Me, It’s the American Reality
By Cadwell Turnbull Source: Wired Imagine a city where a group of people have managed against all odds to carve out prosperity for themselves, at least for a little while. These people used to be owned by other people. Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, media, Philosophy, police state, society, Sociology
Tagged 1984, America, culture, Dystopia, George Orwell, racism, Science fiction, society, Sociology, Speculative Fiction, The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, Big Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, censorship, civil liberties, conspiracy, coronavirus, corporate media, Covid-19, David Icke, Dystopia, Facebook, fascism, free speech, George Orwell, Nanny State, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, police state, propaganda, Psyops, shadowbanning, Social Media, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technofascism, The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Totalitarianism, tyranny, youtube
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Minority Report (2002) Esoteric Analysis
By Jay Dyer Source: Jay’s Analysis Spielberg’s Minority Report is now an important film to revisit. Based on the short story by visionary science fiction author Phillip K. Dick, Spielberg’s film version implements an important number of predictive programming elements … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, Film, NSA, Oligarchy, Philosophy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, A.I., Afghanistan, algorithmic tracking, Apple, DARPA, Dystopia, elites, Google, Minority Report, NSA, panopticon, Phillip K. Dick, Philosophy, police state, Precrime, Science fiction, Silicon Valley, Siri, Steven Spielberg, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Ubik
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How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’
By Brian Cloughly Source: Strategic Culture Foundation A Bloomberg report of October 22 was concise and uncompromising in declaring Russia to be a surveillance state. Harking back to the good old days of the Cold War, as is increasingly the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state
Tagged 1984, Alcoholism, Big Brother, Cold War, corporate media, Dystopia, Mainstream Media, MSM, President Putin, propaganda, Public Health, Russia, surveillance state, United Kingdom, washington post
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