Tag Archives: George Orwell

On the Road to Authoritarianism: The Challenges

Posted on January 15, 2025 by greg

Throughout most of U.S. history, when prosperity and opportunity have been more broadly shared, especially for women and people of colour, it’s been hand-in-hand with the expansion of democracy and individual freedoms, not their curtailment. Structural and systemic economic unfairness … Continue reading →

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Responding to a Society Controlled and Manipulated by Lies

Posted on June 1, 2024 by greg

Self-deception can fool us into believing our own lies – and allows us to be more confident in what we are saying, which makes us more persuasive. Continue reading →

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The World of Misinformation and Escapism

Posted on April 1, 2024 by greg

In psychology, escapism is when a person routinely uses an activity or behavior to escape life’s realities. It is a way of distracting the mind. Examples include social media, substance use, or playing games to avoid thinking about or facing … Continue reading →

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The Response to the Nationalist Neoliberal Hegemony

Posted on December 9, 2017 by greg

Hegel believed in a freedom of action that included struggle through rational deliberation – when we cease to strive to realize a potential then we live by habit, by rote. The light of progress spreads and can be generated by … Continue reading →

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Searching for Truth

Posted on February 15, 2017 by greg

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) claimed all concepts are human inventions (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication), human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are ‘true’, but, in fact, do not correspond … Continue reading →

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Part 3 of 3: The Road to Freedom

Posted on August 2, 2014 by admin

George Orwell was attending university at the end of the First World War. The young men returning from the war were angry at their elder’s incompetence for having led them to such mass slaughter. This mood of rebellion in Britain … Continue reading →

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1984 And Big Brother

Posted on January 1, 2014 by admin

George Orwell’s novel, 1984, written after the Second World War, introduced a concept of reality control that the population could be controlled and manipulated merely through the alteration of everyday language and thought. Doublespeak was the method for controlling thought … Continue reading →

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