#Orwell

John Taylor

realJohn_Taylor

What George Orwell got right (and wrong) about language. A thread.If I weren't a Latter-day Saint I'd be drunk right now, maybe.1/24 2/24 It's late and I'm reminiscing about the

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1. Orwell’s 1984 opens with Winston Smith writing in his diary about a film he’s seen. “One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in

Julija

Julija9Julija

Deconstructing the myth of Orwell and Huxley.1984 & Brave New World were not a vision of future, but CIA/Tavistock masterstroke of pre-emptive mind controlOrwell's agent was CIA asset, Huxley was

Brechtian Danskin

InnuendoStudios

You know what? It's been too long since a lot of things. Let's read this together. #IanLivetweetsHisResearch Part I: England Your England (which I think I first read as a

Lòrien

williamthegray

The Ideologies of 1984 and What They Mean:"1984" was written by George Orwell and is supposedly a critique on "da evil n**i's!!" but is it all true?Firstly, we must examine

Slacks

JaySlacks

There’s been a lot of talk about this being Orwellian and that being Orwellian. I want to dive in and give my take. Before we get started, my credentials .

Nick Short

PoliticalShort

A quote from an essay by George Orwell that he wrote in 1946 on the Prevention of Literature is spot on for today: 1/From the totalitarian point of view history

Billy Bragg

billybragg

1/4 Be nice if @Twitter fessed up to facilitating the movement which produced the scenes we saw in the Capitol on Wednesday. But the fact that they feel that the

Sarah A. Downey

SarahADowney

If you haven’t read Orwell’s 1984, now is a great time. I’ll gift 20 copies—digital or physical—to the first 20 people who RT and comment something you believe but have

FactsMan

BallenCBTech

#Orwell wrote b4 computers, but if he was writing today #BigBrother would just be an AI at the core of the #CCP's mass surveillance and social credit systems. You don't

Jason Pontin

jason_pontin

Many, if not most, great writers were temperamentally conservative: Swift, Austen, Tolstoy, Kipling, Claudel, T.S. Eliot, (later) Auden, Larkin, Powell, Elizabeth Bowen, Waugh, Mishima, (later) Bellow, Sybille Bedford, Gene Wolfe.

Alex Buxton

AlexBuxton

*The Tory party must keep burning our money to stay in power.*Why? According to George Orwell, we have three levels of society; the ruling class, the middle class and the

GlumBird

GlumBird

The beginning of 2017 saw Orwell's anti-communist opus 1984 enjoy a partial resuscitation. Whilst we often - and rightly - attack Orwell for his dealings with the British state, it's

Mondo Lopez

mondolopez2

1984..is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. 1984 centers on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and.... 1)

Ben Bradley MP

BBradley_Mans

The comparisons with #Orwell & 1984 now too numerous to ignore. It's something of a parody of a prediction of course (you hope), but the early days of #IngSoc and

Keir Shiels

keirshiels

We need to fight against debating society journalism. Facts and opinions should not land based on who has the most articulate phrase or pithy quotation. A thread. 1/?https://twitter.com/keirshiels/status/1346744919797493760 Sticking two

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