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25 Dec 2007, 8:57 pm
Orwell when he finished the novel back in 1948 coming to pass — we have allowed our privacy to seep away. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 4:59 am
And don't urge me to join you on the shelf with the other teacups.H/T Seth Godin, for the Orwell quote (irony duly noted). [read post]
Right Thing, Wrong Reason: Killing the Republican Tax Plan with Anti-Deficit Arguments Is a Bad Idea
15 Nov 2017, 9:01 pm
On taxes, they are going “full Orwell,” saying that cutting taxes is an anti-deficit measure, but then saying that–even if they were somehow right and deficits declined–they still plan to use any remaining deficits or debt to justify an assault on the middle class.And whether or not their supply-side miracle fails to materialize and deficits and debt go up, they will eagerly point to people like Blumenauer and others who either piously decried deficits or (as… [read post]
22 May 2013, 2:37 pm
The first may be best described in George Orwell’s classic essay “Politics and the English Language. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 3:47 pm
(That's from the first in the series.) 1984 by George Orwell - It needs to be read. [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 12:17 pm
” So explains Big Brother’s agent, O’Brien, to Winston in the midst of his torturing of Winston at the Ministry of Love, in George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
22 May 2020, 8:51 am
George Orwell warned us that who controls the past controls the future. [read post]
4 Jul 2021, 6:44 pm
Anyone associated at any time with slavery, racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism must be erased a la George Orwell’s 1984 from American history. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 3:48 pm
The proposed rule contained several provisions that reminded me of the poster hung for all to see in George Orwell’s 1984: Big Brother Is Watching You. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 8:34 am
It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 11:36 am
Last year, Amazon resorted to deleting e-books by George Orwell from its customers' Kindles after realizing that it did not have a license for U.S. distribution. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 11:49 am
It discussed the successful hacking—and said nothing at all about what was found.I was reminded of the verse by Humbert Wolfe (of whom I know nothing else—I encountered it in something written by George Orwell). [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 7:00 am
By A Law School Graduate Graduating from law school reminds me of the part from George Orwell’s Animal Farm where Boxer, the horse, finally collapses after many years of hard work. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 11:37 am
It will be interesting to see if any of the people who publicly claimed that Palin was falsely asserting that the purpose of Revere's ride was to carry a message to the British admit their error—either the original error of misstating what she said or the subsequent error of insisting that Revere did not warn the British.Which gets me back to my admiration for George Orwell, which I hope was clear in earlier posts, some of them attacking him. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 11:04 pm
Among those who fully recognized the evils of communism in the past were liberals such as Harry Truman and Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson and leftists such as George Orwell. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 11:36 am
Last year, Amazon resorted to deleting e-books by George Orwell from its customers' Kindles after realizing that it did not have a license for U.S. distribution. [read post]
17 Nov 2022, 8:58 am
" The court invoked George Orwell to drive home that if "liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 8:37 am
” Although mostly the work of English authors such as Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, and Alan Moore, the idea of a reemerging fascist state that dubiously imprisons and variously tortures its citizens is not unimaginable in the eyes of Americans such as Naomi Wolf.Echoing this possibility, “A Clockwork Orange” is a surreal, often uncomfortable portrayal of a once respectable society in social and legal decay. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 6:30 am
This results in “memory holes” in society’s knowledge, analogous to those discussed in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 10:11 am
While those in favour of the deal are keen to point out that if Google has the resources and the capability to save "orphan" works then it should, even if the motivation is profit(3).ConclusionAs I stated in the conclusion to my paper, "After all, as George Orwell wrote: "Who controls the past controls the future", and Google could be said to be going a long way towards this end... [read post]
