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1984 - The primary aim of modern continuous warfare: maintain the stability of a hierarchical society.

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The Malthus Factor: Poverty Politics and Population in Capitalist Development It examines how Malthusian arguments portrayed agricultural modernization as a humanitarian attempt to forestall a food crisis in... published 18 months ago

6 comments    business technology education

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[Science Fiction] The Domination by S.M. Stirling (the Utopian/Dysutopian Draka Society)

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The Domination from S/M. Stirling is about an Utopian/Dysutopian society called Draka Society. I haven't read this book yet but I intend to because I think it's more entertaining - this is the secret reason... published 17 months ago

4 comments    entertainment education politics

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1984: Watch it online for Free

by thecounterpunch

As I said I never read the book 1984 (you can read it online here); I just found all the videos online on youtube and I don't even feel like watching it - for those who want the whole film is below. The reason... published 11 months ago

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Newspeak: a fictional language in George Orwell's novel 1984

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Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel 1984. It has a reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim was to make any... published 18 months ago

1 comment    education politics literature

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How propaganda works: the ruse of Hegelian Dialectic

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[Humoristic Book] Principia Discordia or the Hegelian Dialectic for the Masses "each crisis is 'an opportunity' to have develop out of this tragedy a new world order". -- George W. Bush invoked the new world... published 18 months ago

1 comment    education politics war

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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

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"Look at the real situations which lie beneath the conceptual and verbal symbols." -- Carroll Quigley, Historian and Bill Clinton's mentor George Orwell invented a language in 1984 called Newspeak. He gave... published 18 months ago

1 comment    education politics 1984

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Cognitive Dissonance: Orwell called it DOUBLETHINK

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Newspeak: Orwell's fictional language How propaganda works: the ruse of hegelian dialectics Social psychologist Leon Festinger first proposed the theory in 1956: Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term... published 18 months ago

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