A key element of most modern dystopian texts is the manipulation and alteration of language to control the masses. Manipulation of language by world leaders is a daily occurrence in the modern world, and to understand this and equip ourselves to against this, we must learn from not only the past and the present, but […]
George Orwell’s “1984” is the closest thing to fortune-telling that the people of the early 20th century would ever see. Although the society that Orwell suggested is dramatically different in many ways from the society that we live in today, some of the predictions he made are astoundingly accurate. The most worrying of these is […]
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