Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.——乔治·奥威尔(英语:GeorgeOrwell,1903年6月25日-1950年1月21日)展开全文
【英】乔治.奥威尔:任何形式的极权主义都是通过欺骗和暴力进行统治的,一旦骗局被识破,那就必须依靠暴力了。All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. by GeorgeOrwell展开全文
#胡思乱想#Washington Irving在1807年的Salmagundi中提出了logocracy一词,所谓语言专制,后来又波兰诺奖获得者Czes aw Mi osz以及英国名作家GeorgeOrwell在反对集权主义的作品中发扬光大。遥想彼时的欧翁,造出这一词居然是为了抨击言论和出版自由的弊端,突然觉得人类怎么发展都是困难模式。。。展开全文 原微博
"political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible..Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." -GeorgeOrwell, <Politics and Writing> 所以优秀的作家和政治家是不能同时做的。展开全文 原微博
The further a society drifts from truth,the more it will hate those who speak it.一个社会越远离真相,它就越害怕揭示真相的人。——GeorgeOrwell乔治•奥威尔”记住一个道理,真相之所以令人恐惧不安,因为真相都是敏感的、掩盖的、颠覆现状的、击碎固化思维的,但人类要进步,必须面对真相。展开全文
...no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. GeorgeOrwell, Why I Write 展开全文 原微博
Yang Haisong On 1984-'This Album Is About The Time We Live In-It's Our Life'杨海崧英文专访"It's not about the book, not about GeorgeOrwell, it's about the reality around us...it's about 2013, it's not about 1984" 8月31日这周五 一场危险的旅行——P.K.14新专辑《1984》首发巡演上海站展开全文 原微博