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British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
George Orwell’s 1984 delivers a blunt, central injunction: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,” a sentence that functions as b...
Adolf Hitler defined National Socialism in Mein Kampf and in speeches as a racially based, nationalist movement that fused social rhetoric with authoritarian, expansionist aims — calling for "folk and...
Assertions that “1984 is happening right now” are widespread but require nuance: reporting and commentary show growing surveillance, AI-driven profiling and government data aggregation that critics ca...
’s traces a set of interlocking psychological mechanisms—, linguistic control (), constant surveillance, historical revisionism, and propagandistic slogans—that make citizens accept false official nar...
Documented instances of sloganized language used to justify collective punishment in 20th‑century authoritarian regimes are unevenly catalogued in the available reporting: some sources point to explic...
Politicians and commentators have repeatedly invoked George Orwell’s injunction—“the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears”—as a rhetorical device to frame opponents as asking th...