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George Orwell - An English novelist and an avid critic. He is best known for his books #AnimalFarm and #1984.

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian" describing totalitarian & authoritarian social practices is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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THE DEFINITIVE "PANDEMIC / LOCKCLOWN MOVIE LIST (a 🧵)

Start from the beginning, because "Context is everything"

@TheOliverStone's Masterpiece
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THE DEFINITIVE "PANDEMIC"/LOCKCLOWN MOVIE LIST

@McDowellMalc's brainchild, written by David Sherwin and directed by the great Lindsay Anderson, has an uncannily predictive genetic engineering laboratory sequence.

And it was filmed in 1972 . . .

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#3, THE DEFINITIVE "PANDEMIC"/LOCKCLOWN MOVIE LIST

Well-Researched and produced documentary on The @WHO by @OVALmediaGroup lends vital context to some of their many conflicts of interest and shady dealings

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ieri ho scritto che tranne poche nobili eccezioni,la nostra informazione ci fa vivere nel #BraveNewWorld di #Huxley,dove guerra è pace, #Guantanamo è l'Hotel de Crillon di Parigi.
Mi scuso, ma la citazione corretta è #GeorgeOrwell1984, non #BraveNewWorld di #AldousHuxley
i due maestosi libri #GeorgeOrwell1984 e #BraveNewWorld di #AldousHuxley vengono spesso confusi,ma un follower (@TomLondon6) mi ha permesso di conoscere una sintesi fulminante sulla differenza che vi racconto
#Orwell aveva paura di quelli che avrebbero messo al bando i libri, #Huxley,invece, aveva paura del fatto che non ci sarebbe stata ragione di mettere al bando i libri, perché nessuno avrebbe voluto leggerli
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«La guerra es la paz
La libertad es la esclavitud
La ignorancia es la fuerza»

El 8 de junio de 1949, hace hoy 70 años, vio la luz «1984», la feroz y atinada crítica de #GeorgeOrwell de la vigilancia y la represión ubicuas de los regímenes totalitarios.

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Tanto tiempo después, dice @minipetite en #ElEnemigoConoceElSistema (megustaleer.com/libros/el-enem…), que publicamos el jueves:

«Tecnológicamente, hoy el mundo se parece más a 1984 que nunca. A diferencia de la radio y la televisión, la telepantalla podía ver y escuchar lo que pasaba…
…a su alrededor a través de un monitor de vídeo conectado a la Policía del Pensamiento. Pero cada época tiene su propio fascismo, y el nuestro difiere en muchos aspectos del que describe Orwell en los cuarenta, al menos en el mundo occidental.…
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