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George Orwell’s 1984 Has Become a Blueprint for Our Dystopian Reality
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, freedom of speech, Law, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, Big Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, Brave New World, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Minority Report, NSA, police state, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, Thought Police
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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “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 Tread cautiously: the fiction of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, FBI, freedom of speech, Law, media, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Animal Farm, Big Brother, Big Government, Big Tech, CIA, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, FBI, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Newspeak, NSA, OldSpeak, Philip K. Dick, police state, propaganda, Ray Bradbury, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, Thought Police
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Whose Dystopia Is It Anyway?
Reason writers debate which fictional dystopia best predicted our current moment. By Mike Riggs, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Todd Krainin, Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker, Robby Soave, Eric Boehm, Christian Britschgi, Peter Suderman & Brian Doherty Source: Reason With social media platforms seemingly … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, media, society, Sociology
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Back to the Future II, Being John Malkovich, Brazil, Edgar Allan Poe, Ender's Game, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Love in the Ruins, Neal Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Robert Zemeckis, Science fiction, Sleeper, Snow Crash, Speculative Fiction, Terry Gilliam, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Past Through Tomorrow, Walker Percy, Woody Allen
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You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Aldous Huxley, Blade Runner, Brazil, Children of Men, Dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes, police state, Ray Bradbury, Science fiction, Soylent Green, Stanley Kubrick, surveillance state, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Matrix, They Live, THX 1138, Totalitarianism, V For Vendetta
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