"1984" vs. "Foundation"

How these two classics are related:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=24&id=276

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#orwell #asimov

2️⃣ Elon #Musk will das Wissen der Menschheit neu schreiben. Mutmasslich nach seinen Wünschen. Dazu will er #Grok einsetzen, was denn sonst. Das ist keine gute Idee, meint (nicht nur) Gary Marcus. Schon George #Orwell schrieb in #1984: "Wer die Vergangenheit kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Zukunft."

Und dann erzählen wir euch noch etwas zu Startups, die niemand kennt, aber die schon für 2 Milliarden über den Ladentisch gehen.

#DNIP
https://dnip.ch/2025/06/24/dnip-briefing-30-viel-geld-fuer-ein-versprechen/#Duestere-Versprechen-zu-KI

#Orwell #Orwellian

The "Budapest Memorandum" documents have been removed from the White House website as of April 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum#:~:text=The%20%22Budapest%20Memorandum%22%20documents%20have,website%20as%20of%20April%202025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

#putin #ruSSia #china #iran #northcorea #us #usa #orwellian #kleptofascist #billionaire #looter #terrormaffia

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

What a lovely day at Sutton Courtenay with The Orwell Society, its chair person Quentin Kopp and Orwell‘s son Richard Blair. They host an annual reading of one of Orwell‘s text at his grave on a Sunday close to his birthday (25 June). #Orwell #TheOrwellSociety

#trump #maga #peace #bomb #iran #israel #military #attack #meme #politics #president #usa #pentagon #dod #airforce #b2

@jeffjarvis This headline is straight out of 1984:
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
#media #medien #autoritarismus #orwell #usa

A quotation from Orwell

   From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revelation of prominent historical figures.
   This kind of thing happens everywhere, but is clearly likelier to lead to outright falsification in societies where only one opinion is permissible at any given moment. Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” Polemic Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/43942/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #alteration #censorship #dogma #editing #history #infallibility #mythology #objectivity #reality #revision #subjectivity #totalitarianism #truth #updating

Going Dark Eu il piano europeo per leggerti le conversazioni

Raccontiamo la vicenda dall’inizio. Tutto comincia l’11 maggio 2022, quando la commissaria europea Ylva Johansson presenta un disegno di legge intitolato...

https://guide.privacypratica.it/2025/going-dark-eu-il-piano-europeo-per-leggerti-le-con
#privacy #privacypratica #sorveglianza #unioneeuropea #orwell

"The convention provides the fullest guarantee that government business will be conducted at all times in light of thorough and candid legal advice."

Fuck me, Orwell must be turning in his grave to read this.

How on earth can we tell if the government is acting in light of legal advice if we don't know what that advice is?

#MakeOrwellFictionAgain

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-attorney-general-has-concerns-over-iran-israel-war-13385688

#UKPolitics #IsraelIranWar #Orwell

The Orwell Ratio

Humanity has a natural ratio to organize itself: 2%/13%/85%.

Ever since we moved from hunter-gatherers, there has always been a 2% elite.

Except for post WW2.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=139

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#orwell #1984

1/2 #orwell #art #propaganda

“Hitler is all the war-lords and witch-doctors in history rolled into one. Therefore, argues Wells, he is an absurdity, a ghost from the past, a creature doomed to disappear almost immediately. But unfortunately the equation of science with common sense does not really hold good. The aeroplane, which was looked forward to as a civilising influence but in practice has hardly been used except for dropping bombs, is the symbol of that fact. ...

Is this meditation on #Orwell’s essay Marrakech relevant in the current situation? #Iran https://medium.com/p/read-between-the-lines-of-orwells-essay-marrakech-it-remains-relevant-f7f4a1717091?source=social.tw

Die am häufigsten verbotenen #Bücher sind die, die zu 44 Prozent von schwarzen Personen und Charakteren und 39 Prozent von #LGBTQ+-Personen und -Charakteren, von #Frauen, #Rassismus, Sexualität, Geschlechterrollen und der Geschichte des Landes erzählen.

https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Die-USA-entledigen-sich-ihrer-Klassiker-article25826891.html

#VerboteneBücher #Bucherverbrennung #Faschismus #Orwell #AnimalFarm #AnneFrank #DieTributeVonPanem

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/usa/id_100776752/usa-buecher-wie-1984-oder-tribute-von-panem-teilweise-verbannt.html
Mal ehrlich. Ich bin Jahrgang 1966. Als ich erstmals Farm der Tiere, 1984, Eine schöne neue Welt, las, wäre mir nicht ansatzweise der Gedanke gekommen, dass ich die Buch Szenarien in meinem Leben noch erlebe. #Orwell #Huxley #USA . Ich schaue einfach nur noch fassungslos zu.

'Chi controlla il presente controlla il passato': cosa spiega '1984' di #Orwell sulla distorsione della storia per controllare le opinioni
https://www.aduc.it/articolo/chi+controlla+presente+controlla+passato+cosa_39372.php

So einen blöden Schei$$ selbstverliebter #Autokraten kannten wir bisher nur aus #Rußland, #China, #Nordkorea und anderen illiberalen Ländern.

Wahnsinn. #Trump zelebriert sich wie ein #KimJong-Un, wie ein #PolPot oder ähnliche Despoten der Geschichte. Wir haben plötzlich die wahrgewordene Dystopie der einstigen "Unkenrufer" #Orwell, #Huxley und Co. Leider nicht von der #KI generiert. Leider bittere unfassbare Realität. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/washington-militaerparade-trump-100.html

#Orwell asks “Why is the goose-step not used in #England?" and answers his own question, "because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army”.

#Orwell asks in his essay “Why is the goose-step not used in #England?" and answers his own question, "because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army”. That’s a sobering observation and it bring me to #Trump’s military parade. It won’t (we think) have the goose-step but is it possible Trump is leading #America into a phase in which it will dare not laugh at the army?
https://www.rashmee.com/what-orwell-wouldve-made-of-donald-trumps-military-parade/

What #Orwell would’ve made of Donald #Trump’s #military parade www.rashmee.com/what-orwell-...

What Orwell would’ve made of D...

@thetnholler.bsky.social

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth ”

From George Orwell's work of dystopian fiction, "1984".

Too many journalists have failed to take this lesson to heart. Or they're knowingly supporting "Big Brother" Trump.

#BigBrother #Trump #Orwell