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Tag Archives: George Orwell
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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Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
By John W. Whitehead Source: Activist Post “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick Red pill or … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, elites, Film, Geopolitics, internet freedom, Law, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Big Brother, culture, Dystopia, Facebook, George Orwell, Google, Internet of Things, Nicholas Carr, NSA, police state, Ray Kurzweil, Social Media, society, surveillance state, technology, The Matrix, Thought Police, Transhumanism
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Survival of the Richest
All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren’t By Nomi Prins Source: TomDispatch.com Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Collusion, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Meltdown, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, George Orwell, Income, income gap, J.P. Morgan, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Wealth
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The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.”—Former Google … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, CIA, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Neoliberalism, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged 1984, CIA, Dystopia, Facebook, fascism, FBI, George Orwell, Google, NSA, police state, Social Media, Soylent Green, surveillance capitalism, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Retconning History
By CH Source: The Hipcrime Vocab “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.”–George Orwell “The mistake of judging the men of other periods by the morality of our own day … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, History, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, culture, Economics, George Orwell, history, individualism, Jobs, Labor, Michael Hudson, nation-state, politics, Retconning, retroactive continuity, Revisionism, society, Work
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DIGITAL FREE SPEECH ZONES ARE HERE
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” ~George Orwell An empire of lies requires popular devotion to its founding illusions, lest it will collapse under the weight of its own hubris. It is therefore … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, censorship, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged alternative media, Big Tech, censorship, civil liberties, corporate media, Dystopia, Facebook, free speech, Free Speech Zones, George Orwell, Internet Freedom, media, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Social Media
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Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
By Henry Cowles Source: Aeon Sales of George Orwell’s utopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early 2017, the idea of ‘alternative facts’ called to mind Winston Smith, the book’s protagonist and, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, internet freedom, media, police state, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged 1984, Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, George Orwell, police state, Sarah Igo, Smartphones, Social Media, Sociology, Sophia Rosenfeld, surveillance state, technology, Telescreens, TV
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OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Environment, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged 1984, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Dystopia, Economics, empathy, George Orwell, Global South, happiness, Health Care, Humanity, Literacy, Nicholas Kristof, Progress, science, Sick Care, Statistics, Stephen Pinker, technology, Third World
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