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Why Orwell matters
His defence of freedom flies in the face of all that is woke and regressive today. By Bruno Waterfield Source: Spike Online Most people think that George Orwell was writing about, and against, totalitarianism – especially when they encounter him … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, elites, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, censorship, civil liberties, Consciousness, Dystopia, elites, Eric Blair, fascism, George Orwell, intellectuals, language, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Sociology, Technocracy, Totalitarianism, Will Self
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What is the Rules-Based Order?
By Kim Petersen Source: Dissident Voice In fits of, what might well be termed, masochism, some of us now-and-then tune in to the legacy media. When doing so, one is likely to hear western-aligned politicians rhetorize ad nauseam about the linguistically vogue … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, NATO, Neocons, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy, war
Tagged Deep State, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, International Law, Joe Biden, Julian Assange, language, Legal/Constitutional, Maidan Coup, Narrative, propaganda, rules-based order, Ukraine, United Nations, US Foreign Policy
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A Tool of Control: How Health Officials Weaponize Language to Manage Public Perception of COVID Vaccines
The deployment of clever linguistic tricks has created a hostile upside-down universe, where even the vaccine-injured are tarnished as “anti-vaxxers” or liars rather than acknowledged as ex-vaxxers who took risks that turned out to be life-changing. By Children’s Health Defense … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, elites, Health, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, autism, COVID vaccines, Covid-19, Dystopia, Edward Bernays, FND, functional neurological disorder, George Orwell, HPV vaccine, language, linguistic weaponization, Media Cartel, Pandemic, propaganda, Psy-ops, Public Health, Technocracy, vaccine mandates, Vaccines
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Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’
By Dave Ellis Source: aeon The question How should we live? is one that many ask in a crisis, jolted out of normal patterns of life. But that question is not always a simple request for a straightforward answer, as if we … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged artificial intelligence, Communication, Consciousness, Humanity, humanness, language, Philosophy, psychology, Soul, Spirit, spirituality
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Buddhism and the Brain
Many of Buddhism’s core tenets significantly overlap with findings from modern neurology and neuroscience. So how did Buddhism come close to getting the brain right? By David Weisman Source: Seed Magazine Over the last few decades many Buddhists and quite … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Spirituality
Tagged Buddhism, Consciousness, language, Meditation, Neurology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, psychology
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The Role of Dystopian Fiction in a Dystopian World
By Luther Blissett and J. F. Sebastian of Arkesoul A few years ago, Neal Stephenson wrote a widely-shared article called Innovation Starvation for the World Policy Institute. He began the piece lamenting our inability to fulfill the hopes and dreams … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Film, History, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Art, civilization, culture, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, environment, Government, language, media, Philosophy, sci-fi, Science fiction, society, technology, Utopia
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Don’t Worry – Everything is Not Under Control
By Zen Gardner Source: ZenGardner.com What a farce. Telling everyone “everything is under control” is perhaps the most dulling and disempowering phrase ever uttered. My fascination with language just keeps expanding. I love looking at expressions, words, colloquialisms, so-called “sayings” … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, Spirituality
Tagged Anarchism, Anarchy, Coldcut, Conscious Anarchy, Consciousness, Control, language, Mindfulness
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Language Leaps and the Information Shuffle
By Zen Gardner Source: ZenGardner.com So much can be told by language shifts. Both what’s being used more frequently in general as well as substantial new additions, and deletions, to the lexicon. This goes two ways. The controllers keep shifting … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Euphemisms, Information Warfare, language, Newspeak, Zen Gardner
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