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Smartphones and Social Media: A Mass Surveillance Dystopia

Posted October 30, 202100:11:12

In the book The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt describes the rudimentary mass surveillance system used by the secret police force of the Russian...

Social Media - Why it Sickens the Self and Divides Society

Posted October 16, 202100:11:55

“WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?” These were the first words sent over the newly invented electric telegraph machine in May 1844. This message proved to...

The Big Lie - How to Enslave the World

Posted September 30, 202100:12:01

“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its … Read More ›

How to Escape from a Sick Society

Posted September 7, 202100:12:53

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things that could...

Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? - George Orwell's Warning to the World

Posted August 7, 202100:15:38

In 1940 George Orwell wrote:  “Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships – an age in which freedom of thought will...