#Orwell

Roz Kaveney

RozKaveney

People who refer to such consequences of their own actions as the cancellation of book deals as Orwellian need to remember two things. 1. That Orwell went to Spain in

Euripides L Evriviades 🇨🇾🇪🇺

eevriviades

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”George Orwell Born #OTD in 1903#GeorgeOrwell #Orwell #Orwellian #ThursdayThoughts #doubletalk #doublethink “In our age there is no such thing

Marrrk J. Valek

MarkValek

We had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even

Jarrod McKenna ⧖

jarrodmckenna

People know that George Orwell literally fought against fascism, right?Like travelled to Spain to volunteer fighting under the red and black flags of the anarcho-socialists, right?That his “Animal Farm” is

Kalipso Bznuni 🇦🇲

realbznuni

"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw

Sandeep Mukherjee

Libertarian196

George Orwell - “Notes on Nationalism 2/ Orwell on Nationalism -“the lunatic modern habit of identifying oneself with large power units and seeing everything in terms of competitive prestige.” 3/

Margarita

margaritaevna95

Huxley’s Brave New World is more reflective of the ills of our society today than Orwell’s 1984 (thread) Brave New World features a society where everyone can, and is encourage

Shaza

OZmandia

Let's take a look at what "Orwellian" really means and what Orwell really stood for. You may be using the term wrongly. Firstly, have you read any of his works?

Celeste Headlee

CelesteHeadlee

THREAD: Before any conservative tries to invoke George Orwell, let me tell you an interesting story about his first book. Orwell was a policeman in Burma while it was still

Emma

AgarthaEmma

I’d like to talk about Eric Blair. Sorry. Most of you know him as George Orwell. That was his pen name. Given these crazy times, we hear the terms 1984

Meghna Chakrabarti

MeghnaWBUR

The faces of the insurrectionist, anti-American mob that attacked the country have inspired me to re-read George Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier".One of his lesser known, but IMHO best

Penguin Classics UK

classicpenguins

Today we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of Animal Farm by George Orwell – a book with a fascinating history. /1 Because of fears that the book

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

As Orwell understood, waging war against imaginary enemies serves to entrench abritrary power, not to challenge it. If @BBradley_Mans shares Orwell's concerns about diversity of thought, tolerance of dissent &

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

1984 is not in the future. there were actual governments like the kind depicted in the novel when the novel was written. and the descriptions of politically manipulated language and

Louis

Louis_Allday

Periodic reminder that George Orwell was an anti-communist snitch who wrote a list of people he suspected of being Communists (or Communist sympathisers) & gave it to the UK Government’s

tammy golden

tammygolden

Hawley's understanding of "Orwellian" is Alanis Morissette's understanding of "Ironic" To clarify: I think Hawley HAS read Orwell, but thinks Napoleon was the hero of Animal Farm. And apologies to

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