Anyone else watch the movie "Orwell 2+2 = 5" yet?
I read 1984 about 40 years ago, so I had forgotten how prescient so much of it is. Think I'll go back and reread it.
Once you have created a post-truth society where there are no facts, no baseline, no shared reality other than the one that can be made up on the spot to suit those in power, then you can tell big lies just as easily as you can tell little lies. He was writing that book in the late 1940s, but the authoritarian playbook is timeless.
@QasimRashid
> Fascists erase violent history for one main reason—to repeat that history
This is why the 'right to archive' trumps both copyright and the 'right to be forgotten'. If it doesn't, we're enabling fascists to use copyright and right to be forgotten trolling to push inconvenient truths down the Memory Hole.
I'm old enough to remember when we Americans thought we had free speech & shit like this was the purview of dystopian scifi & not government mandates.
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114130126759796840
New goal: 🧵 To get a paper published with as many instances of those words as possible. Preferably bolding or using all caps for ever occurrence. https://gizmodo.com/the-list-of-trumps-forbidden-words-that-will-get-your-paper-flagged-at-nsf-2000559661 Transmorphic rocks, asbestos causing transgenic conditions...diverse selection of talc products Steps taken to keep the data from being biased/ biased toward...fibers were discriminated based on legth and aspect ratio of course I'll need to reference the polarization of the PLM (Polarized Light Microscope)... HISTORICALLY. You can't mention anything happening historically. Want to get involved but don't write published papers? I got you, playa! https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/114130517824801387 #TransRights are #HumanRights & you can't deny reality in #science
California Supreme Court has ruled: If you catch Covid from work and then a family member dies from it, you can’t sue your employer.
They said too many employers have disregarded safety protocols.
Too many companies broke the law.
Too many people didn’t do the right thing.
Apparently, expecting them to do the right thing posed an unreasonable burden on them
#OrwellWasRight #Dystopia #Orwell #Dystopian #Covid19 #Orwellian #Covid #CorporateTerrorism #Capitalism #PeopleNotProfit #WageSlaves
Vil montaje de la derecha asegurar que a la campaña del pacto histórico para volver a Petro y Francia la cabeza del ejecutivo tuviera dineros mal-habidos. Da mucha rabia porque en esa campaña lo que hubo fue hambre y desgaste del pueblo, asqueado de las balas de la rancia oligarquÃa. Ahora a trabajar gratis, bajo el sol, bajo insultos, le llaman "financiamiento ilegal"... a recibir dinero de narcotraficantes o tener laboratorios de coca en el patio le llaman "campaña existosa".
#orwellwasright #orwell #derecha #montaje #Petro #golpeblando #Colombia
The Orwell Festival 2023
The Orwell Festival aims to be a space for difficult debate and diversity of opinion and viewpoints, encourage creativity and clarity of expression, provide a platform for unheard voices and defend the right to individual conscience, whilst remaining politically impartial.
https://www.orwellfestival.co.uk/
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The Orwell Festival, taking place in Bloomsbury 22 June - 14 July, will bring together the shortlisted writers for The Orwell Prizes 2022, along with some special guests, in a series of events to discuss the most important and exciting political thinking and writing today.