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Velshi Banned Book Club: Filmmaker Alex Gibney on the frightening relevance of Orwell’s warnings
MSNBC· 2025-10-12 17:31
What happens when the dystopian future imagined by George Orwell in the 1940s shows up in real life? The new documentary Orwell 2 plus 2 equals 5 attempts to answer that question. The film is directed by Raul Peek and produced by the acclaimed Alex Gibney and it premiered at the Can Film Festival this May. The audience was visibly shaken. LA Times staff writer Josh Rottenberg writes, quote, "The crowd reacted with the startled tension of a horror scraping screening, gasps, murmurss, a few cries before final ...
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Andrew Tate· 2025-10-08 19:33
Communists are obsessed with control.They feel weak, and like a bully, want to exert force on others to compensate.This is why they beg for governmental totalitarianism.How do they treat humans once they have control? They kill them.Of course they abuse any pet they control.They’re spiritually evil.They can’t stand the idea of a human having free will let alone something that depends on them like a dog.It must suffer.It must sit perfectly still.It’s not any type of accident - it’s purposeful. ...
‘We should be deeply skeptical’: How George Orwell’s writing mirrors Trump's authoritarianism
MSNBC· 2025-10-04 13:14
We're in a moment right now in this country where our government itself is pushing out false information. It's something that George Orwell warned us about years ago. When I sit down to write a book, I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose.Again, how many fingers. My starting point is always a feeling of injustice. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of this world.I'm going to set down what I dare not say aloud to anyone. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs. That ...