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1984 Part Two

29th March 2021 Going Postal 3473 Comments

So, We’re a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a The Totalitarianism Rebrand) and things are still looking ….… well, pretty totalitarian. Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some [more…]

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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1984

26th March 2021 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3419 Comments

A History of Pop Music Albums – 1984 Featured Album:  Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will [more…]

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1984 & All That

22nd March 2021 Going Postal 1929 Comments

The totalitarian novel is a relatively new genre, the most well known of these being (in no particular order) Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, [more…]

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Re-reading 1984

9th March 2021 Going Postal 2013 Comments

from Imgflip Meme Generator I first read George Orwell’s 1984 sometime around 1990.  I recalled it as a bleak science fiction story about one man, Winston Smith, who attempts to rebel against a particularly evil [more…]

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A Considered Appraisal of 2020 : That Was The Year That Was

13th January 2021 Going Postal 4826 Comments

2020……….Year Zero……….. The year the Global Capitalist Ruling Classes, having finished their dance of the seven veils, did away with the last figleaf of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly [more…]

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The Great Lie of All Tyrants

18th June 2020 Patrick Barron 3092 Comments

The forces of totalitarianism have been chiseling away feverishly at our liberties for many years now. Their efforts have taken the guise of radical equalitarianism (income redistribution), radical diversity (whom one may hire or accept [more…]

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