“I think it’s probably more of a privilege. Do you consider food a right? Do you consider clothing a right? Do you consider shelter a right? What we have as rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have the right to freedom. Past that point, everything else is a limited resource that … Continue reading Skewed To The Best Of Your Ability
Tag: Orwell
1984 Or 2018? Uncreative Theatre-Makers Will Always Be Too Late
Just received an email from an old friend who went to the theatre the other night back home. Specifically, he went to the theatre in Wash DC, my old stomping ground. And what did he see? 1984 as play, eh? Done by a bunch of iPhone totting liberals, I bet. Oh well. Obviously, as worstwriter and … Continue reading 1984 Or 2018? Uncreative Theatre-Makers Will Always Be Too Late
Winston’s Fear Is Not The Rat
Subtitle: What The Ancients Forgot In Their Writing Of The Dystopian Future We Live In Now. Since we are in this place dear worst-reader, this dystopia place so well designed and executed (but by whom), let's have a moment or thrice to worst-write about fear, i.e., that which rules (us). I'm not one to say … Continue reading Winston’s Fear Is Not The Rat
Treaty Or Trade Agreement?
This post is NSFW due to some language issues I'm having. The art of the deal. Rule #1. Lie. Rule #2. Lie. Rule #3. You guessed it, dear worst-reader: make it so that the truth is what you say it is. Rule #4. Let there only be one side that sets the rules and that … Continue reading Treaty Or Trade Agreement?
His Honesty
"His honesty about this paradox or contradiction is what determined him to write Nineteen Eighty-Four as an admonitory parable or fantasy in which 'Ingsoc'--English Socialism--was the Newspeak term for the ruling ideology. It would have been perfectly easy for him to have avoided this crux. In the late 1940s, a dystopian novel based on the … Continue reading His Honesty
Two Minutes Hate
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with … Continue reading Two Minutes Hate
Skittles Is Newspeak
http://youtu.be/jU4m_KNS0Js Another fantastic piece of journalism? Indeed. And it doesn't matter that mindless television spectacle should remind people of the last efforts to stall the fall of the Roman empire. You know, like they did with those coliseum games way back when. Just watch the vid, dear worst-reader. Three issues of #americant neo-fascism and corporatism are addressed. Wife beating … Continue reading Skittles Is Newspeak
Interwebnet Orwell Wet Dream
Post is NSFW and rude and proud of it. Cool how all this "leaked" data is trickling down through the convenient pipes of the Interwebnets via well advertised news sites. But all serious kidding aside. How much is Glenn Greenwald earning from all this? What? Wrong question? Americans are more concerned not about the profits of … Continue reading Interwebnet Orwell Wet Dream
Things Not Fought For Anymore
Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell Swiped this book from the shelf of a friend. You know the situation. You go somewhere and you look through the book shelves of others. Every once-a-once you see a book and you say: she's reading this? Why? And then you know, being the reader you are, that it … Continue reading Things Not Fought For Anymore
