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From a very young age, I always thought that people lived a lie and imposed their values to exert control, turning reality upside down and inside out. For instance, the family is meant to be happy, loving, and safe. But my parents were unloving and heartless towards me. School was meant to give me an education, develop and encourage me to fulfill my dreams and aspirations. But school ridiculed and humiliated me and told me I was stupid. Work was meant to be fulfilling and rewarding. But it was boring, monotonous, and bullying. You see, the truth is, the system is a lie. The reality is, it’s all an illusion.
Propaganda is truth; truth is propaganda. We live in an Orwellian world, the world of “alternative narratives” – blatant untruths that are like a twisted mantra tormenting objectivity until it is beaten into submission.
When I first read 1984, I knew Orwell was not predicting the future but describing the past and the betrayal of a socialist revolution by Stalin. But the hideous truth is that Orwell’s depiction of the "evil Soviet empire" is now the new reality, east and west, where tyranny and authoritarianism distort reality to the point where people feel powerless to oppose.
Resist, and the system will get you. Accept, and you will live a life of a deluded soulless husk. You choose!
1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the Party's department for propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine and live independently takes hold of him and he embarks on a secret and forbidden love affair. As he writes the words 'DOWN WITH BIG…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
This is a powerful memoir about a girl who survived loss, betrayal, and physical and emotional abuse from an unstable and narcissistic mother. It was a harrowing and ultimately uplifting story about how the author found herself and became the woman and the mother she wanted to be. It reminds us that cycles of abuse can be broken.
What happens when your childhood is shaped by loss, betrayal, and chaos—when the people meant to protect you are the ones who cause the deepest harm?From a young age, Cherie Karwoski asked herself: Who is safe? Who can I trust? Is this really what childhood is supposed to feel like?In Just a Girl From the Valley, Cherie shares her powerful story of growing up in the shadow of trauma and learning to survive when everything around her felt like it was falling apart:A devastating loss before she could understand what death truly meantEnduring abuse and neglect by those meant to…
