George Orwell - Murtadd to Human

George Orwell

A collection of 12 posts

Anatomy of a madness, Part 4

Anatomy of a madness, Part 4

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

Anatomy of a madness, Part 2

Anatomy of a madness, Part 2

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

The panic of the sheikhs

Atheism/religion

The panic of the sheikhs

Atheism spooks the sheikhs. People cannot turn to them for answers, and must seek and find their own answers. Lying flat dissolves the CCP’s power over the Chinese people in exactly the same way as a Muslim woman marrying an atheist does.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 12

"a boot stamping on a human face, forever." — George Orwell.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 10

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 10

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.”

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 7

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 7

Whether class struggle that must inevitably lead to the dictatorship of the proletariat, or “No one comes to the Father except through me,” or “until all worship is for Allah alone," the idea is the same: we act in accord with our purpose, the only way to real human happiness.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 6

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 6

You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behaviour. In these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 5

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 5

Were they not in such a parlous state, they would see that Zemmour is their very last hope to stop the slide towards the stark alternatives of either civil war or barbarism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 4

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 4

An easy way to assess how Orwell “speak[s] to us in our own time with great urgency and topicality,” is by looking at the way we regard Islam, and to discern whether the decay of thought and the negation of being that Orwell sees in the civilisational breakdown we call fascism, is present in us.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 3

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 3

Islam will come to Germany, whether you like it or not. Your daughter will wear the hijab. Your son will have a beard. We multiply relentlessly. We have seven or eight. On top of that, we take four wives, then we have twenty-two children, against your one child and a small dog. That’s how it is.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 2

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 2

Shari’a is evil, Islam is evil, the Qur’an is evil, Muhammad is evil: husbands may imprison, rape and beat their wives; parents may kill their children; men may rape children; a dhimmi may not defend himself against a Muslim; a divorced woman must be pimped out before her marriage can be restored…

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 1

Totalitarianism Featured

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 1

Free people slinked into the darkest crevasse, and there made themselves comfortable. George Orwell and Martin Luther King’s lives overlapped like father and son, and from the heart of darkness we know as Black Lives Matter, these two beacons shine from a Golden Age when truth was still spoken.