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Obama and the fascist left has framed this as a womens health issue because who wants to be against womens health? If framed as a Constitutional issue it is still a loser because so many have been mis-educated in the same government schools that tell...
But the life of a dissident in the Soviet Union or the celebrity in a Western democracy would be nothing compared to a person living in a telepathic society. Toward the end of 1984 George Orwell makes the convincing case that we are still free when our...
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
Even so, I used to consider George Orwell’s comment that “at 50, every man has the face he deserves” to be a sort of natural law. Like most of his opinions, it sounded fair and wise and incontrovertibly true. Moreover, throughout my early adult life it...
The victims, he wrote, tended to be middle-class; the alleged perpetrators were seemingly respectable members of the community; the motives were typically sexual or romantic in nature. And none of the cases was open and shut, leaving ample room to...
Formerly Known As ABC!!! I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!! Sad for such a grand role model. "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." Who cold Knight possibly...
Salvador Dali meets George Orwell meets Franz Kafka
It’s now time to clear the air, and when we saw the latest Republican frontrunner, Rick Santorum, speaking before a crowd yesterday, all we could think of was George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” about a society dominated by the most extreme form of...
Although it was intended as an indictment of authoritarian government, I suspect that you and your fellow Reform-Conservatives regard it as a handbook. It boggles the mind that you and your colleagues seriously suggest that by cutting Old Age Security...
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. Full Article
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
Salvador Dali meets George Orwell meets Franz Kafka
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them
He went home and wrote an essay on George Orwell.
The first thing that we demand of a wall is that it shall stand up. If it stands up, it is a good wall, and the question of what purpose it serves is separable from that. And yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp.
The horrible world of George Orwell is becoming a reality under your rule ... You are forcing bills that are the foundations of oppression. 1984 is already here, and it’s awful.
He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future
we are facing a government that cannot stand a different voice. Not because the voice is dangerous, but because it is different. You may ask, why are being silenced? Why intimidate the media? To cover women, make them disappear? The goal of persecution is persecution, as George Orwell wrote in his book ...
The voice came from an oblong plaque like a dulled mirror ... There was no way of shutting it off.
I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
