Fluid Streets of Gold for Totalitarians
So I was in the library with my kids one day and we’re applying for a library card for my...
So I was in the library with my kids one day and we’re applying for a library card for my...
I’m hoping you find this post persuasive – really. If and when coercion replaces persuasion, you know you’re in a dictatorship or a cult or the Mafia or some other unhealthy institution or relationship. Or maybe you’re a character in a dystopian novel like George Orwell’s 1984. Contrast that with what I would call an […]
Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 gave us many commonly-used phrases, such as “Big Brother is watching,” “thought police”, “newspeak”, and “doublethink”, among others. He wrote of “smelly little orthodoxies” in the novel and in a description of his imagined view of Charles Dickens: “It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, […]
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