Showing posts with label deception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deception. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Tools of Political Warfare

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24-3-21 Political Warfare Toolbox: Russia - FPRI > .

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Saturday, October 7, 2023

23-10-7 The Last, We Hope □

For the sake of so many, decent people across the planet (including many Russians) hope that this will be Runt's final birthday in power. 
23-10-7 P00ti will keep the war going 'until he dies' - Times > .

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Sunday, May 14, 2023

PonXi Scam

21-8-20 Xina's Worrisome Debt Crisis | Economics Explained > .
24-10-25 [Xi at 2024 BRICS Summit: 5Gs & Whiny Defensiveness] - Update > . 
24-3-20 What a Deglobalized Economy Will Look Like - M&M > .
24-2-13 Trade Decoupling - Mexico Supplants Xina in US Trade - Update > .
23-12-16 Censoring negative (accurate) remarks on Xinese economy - Update > .
23-12-13 US House Select Committee: Economic Competition vs PRC - Update > .
23-12-7 5 Hard lessons West should learn from dealing with XiXiP - Lei > .
23-12-2 Huawei: [Subsidized Weapon in Chip War versus USA] - Update > . 
23-10-23 Xina's Threats Pushing Philippines Closer to US - WSJ > .
23-10-22 [Bilk & Raid Imperialism 2: Xi+P00 NoXious Arab Plans ] - Update > .   
23-10-20 Pentagon Report [re X(IR) threat] & Chip Curbs - Update > .
23-10-19 BRI, Hamas fit into XiXiP's Middle East [NoXious] strategy - Lei > .
23-10-17 Xina’s Illegal Man-Made Military Islands = Ecological Disaster - Map > .
23-10-16 Xina's Hypocrisy re Hamas Atrocities-Israel's Response - Digging > .
23-10-15 World Against [Xina’s Woof Whiners] | US-Xina | Trade - Update > .
23-10-13 Xina's plunging birthrate - Update > .
23-10-12 Causes of the Crisis between Hamas and Israel - Spaniel > .
23-10-12 Xina Supporting Hamas in the Israel/Palestine Conflict - laowhy86 > .
23-9-29 Decoding P00ti-PooXi blueprint for NoXious World Order | DW > .
23-9-25 Xi's Transforming Xina [for the worse] - Xina's Changing Trajectory - Dig > .
23-9-24 $6.5T Problem: BRI, Unproductive, Decaying Infrastructure | EcEx > .
23-9-16 "Belt & Road to Death" - [XiXiP targeted corrupt governments] - Obs > .
23-9-7 Xi's Mess: Wartime Economy Rising, Imminent Societal Collapse > .
23-8-26 Will BRICS Overthrow US Dollar | Xina Using BRICS vs West? - Update > .
23-8-22 BRICS 2023: Why Iran, Ethiopia, etc Want to join Economic Bloc | WSJ > .
23-7-11 "Eat Bitterness" - Xina's Hopeless Youth Give Up on Life - laowhy86 > . skip > .
23-5-23 Can Xina Contain Its $23 Trillion Local Debt Problem? - BlQ > .
23-5-22 Xina's Censorship Obscures Persisting Poverty Issues | Digging > .

Comment on Xina's Legal System & Evergrande's trillions in debt: One should understand: In China, the Purpose of its Legal System is to certify the legitimacy of Government's actions. Therefore, the outcome of a lawsuit is often predetermined, the Chinese Court is instructed of what outcome should be. The great majority of the debts Evergrande owes are to the banks. As long as Evergrande remains a Zombie, the loans are considered as "Premium Assets" (i.e. real estate loan is generally low risk because the property is the collateral) . So if Evergrande is bankrupt, there will be a domino effect on the banks. So 5000 lawsuits are meaningless, because Evergrande should have bankrupted 2 years ago. China's Court has already been informed that none of the lawsuits are allowed to proceed since CCP government has decided it is less risky to let all creditors bankrupt instead of the national banks. The individuals that bought the unfinished home is on the hooked to pay mortgage on something they will never own for 30 years because there is NO bankruptcy protection for individuals in China.
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The West WILL get Xina (post-2012) wrong if it relies on hubristic Xinese apologists and fork-tongued diplomats. Westerners must watch Xinese feet, not heed guff about 5,000 years of “stability” and Han homogeneity. As to Xina’s understanding the West better than the West understands Xina, Woof Whiner “Diplomacy” and "Woops!" Retractions demonstrate that they are tilting at a straw windmill.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

23-5-3 Krumblin's Desperate False Flag □

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23-5-15 Theories: False Flags, Ukrainian Drones, R-Partisans? - Spaniel > .
23-5-10 Attack ‘carried out by Russian secret service’ | Fmr GRU Spetsnaz > .
23-5-5 "Assassination attempt" on P00ti | Drone strike | Artur > .
23-5-5 Everything is Going Terribly for Ruscia - Jake > .
23-5-5 How to spot a Ruscian false flag operation - Anders > .
23-5-4 [Krumblin's Humiliating Drone Strike | Cui bono? (subs) - Katz > .
23-5-4 Malcolm Nance on [Ruscist False Flag PsyOps] - KyivPost > .
23-5-3 Two New Videos, Geolocation of the Direction - Suchomimus > .
23-5-3 Drone Hits a Roof in the Krumblin - Suchomimus > .
23-5-3 Ruscia [falsely] accuses Ukraine of P00 assassination drones - BBC > .

"Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilization. Several indicators suggest that the strike was internally conducted and purposefully staged. Russian authorities have recently taken steps to increase Russian domestic air defense capabilities, including within Moscow itself, and it is therefore extremely unlikely that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defense and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin in a way that provided spectacular imagery caught nicely on camera." ISW.

The ISW analysis fits with the Krumblin's subsequent tantrums, empty threats, and utterly ludicrous accusations of a US plot.

(to E) Sredniye Torgovyye Ryady 📹 - showing dome and ladder, with drone approaching from behind at left (N to NE).
Hotel Baltschug Kempinski Moscow 📹 - showing St Basil's Cathedral and Spasskaya Bashnya, with drone approaching from right (E to NE).
Ukraine is neither East nor Northeast of Moscow.

Why the delay between attacks? The first drone failed to create dramatic footage of fire on the roof, so they launched another short range drone, which they detonated remotely above the roof. Why the blackout of nearby buildings before the attacks? Presumably to ensure that uncontrolled, revealing footage could not find its way online.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Rationality Clinging On? Red Ripple

22-11-9 tRUMP-Backed Election LIARs Lose Key 2022 Midterm Races | WSJ > .
In the key swing states of Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Pennsylvania, [deplorable] candidates who made FALSE claims about the 2020 election ran for positions that can exert great influence over election administration.
22-11-9 Democratic Showing Could Mean New 'Rules Of Politics': Kornacki > .22-11-9 Democrats dodge 'red wave' = more D votes than polls predicted | DW > .
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

China-US-USSR Cyberwar

19-8-26 China: Hacking, Cyberwar Against US > .
23-9-30 Internet Backbone = Hidden Infrastructure - B1M > .
22-9-29 Is Your Laptop's Microphone Spying On You? - Seytonic > .
22-9-29 Pegasus: The Most Dangerous Virus In The World - Tech > .
22-4-19 How Cyberwarfare Actually Works (Stuxnet +) - Wendover > .
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Thursday, February 13, 2020

Vlad the Despoiler


[edited for emphasis] Putin’s Long War Against American Science: A decade of health DISinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses.

"On Feb. 3, soon after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus to be a global health emergency, an obscure Twitter account in Moscow began retweeting an American blog. It said the pathogen was a germ weapon designed to incapacitate and kill. The headline called the evidence “irrefutable” even though top scientists had already debunked that claim and declared the novel virus to be natural.

As the pandemic has swept the globe, it has been accompanied by a dangerous surge of false information — an “infodemic,” according to the World Health Organization. Analysts say that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has played a principal role in the spread of false information as part of his wider effort to discredit the West and destroy his enemies from within. [DISinformation trolls are running rampant on a recent Washington Post video about hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19. Hell only know how many poorly-educated, anti-authority authoritarian [sic] Americans are credulous enough to believe the LIES.]

The House, the Senate and the nation’s intelligence agencies have typically focused on election meddling in their examinations of Putin’s long campaign. But the repercussions are wider. ... Putin has spread DISinformation on issues of personal health for more than a decade.

His agents have repeatedly planted and spread the idea conspiracy theory that viral epidemics — including flu outbreaks, Ebola and now the coronavirus — were sown by American scientists. The DISinformers have also sought to undermine faith in the safety of vaccines [resulting in the deaths of children], a triumph of public health [destruction] that Putin himself promotes at home.

Moscow’s aim, experts say, is to portray American officials as downplaying the health alarms and thus posing serious threats to public safety."
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"The Russian president has waged his long campaign by means of open media, secretive trolls and shadowy blogs that regularly cast American health officials as patronizing frauds. Of late, new stealth and sophistication have made his handiwork harder to see, track and fight.

Even so, the State Department recently accused Russia of using thousands of social media accounts to spread coronavirus DISinformation — including a conspiracy theory that the United States engineered the deadly pandemic."
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"Because public interest in wellness and longevity runs high, health DISinformation can have a disproportionally large social impact. Experts fear that it will foster public cynicism that erodes Washington’s influence as well as the core democratic value of relying on demonstrable facts as a basis for decision-making."

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"Seeding lack of trust in government institutions,” Peter Pomerantsev, author of “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” a 2014 book on Kremlin disinformation.

Sandra C. Quinn, a professor of public health at the University of Maryland has followed Mr. Putin’s vaccine scares for more than a half-decade.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 39-8-23 to 41-6-22

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Cracks in the Soviet-Nazi Alliance - WW2 - November 23, 1940 > .   What if the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact were never made? - CaHi > .
 
On August 23 1939, two bitter rivals sign a non-aggression pact. But the treaty is something more than just a simple pledge of neutrality. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union have also secretly agreed on how they will carve up Eastern Europe between them. 

The Soviet Union had largely withdrawn from international affairs in the 1920s and early 1930s, but German hostility and the growing threat of Japan drove it to rethink its foreign policy and renew its relationship with Britain and France. But this relationship was marked by scepticism and distrust on both sides. Britain and France began talks with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939, but the three powers struggled to reach an agreement and negotiations collapsed.

1939-8-23: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

Stalin and the USSR deeply distrusted Nazi Germany, suspecting [correctly] that Hitler ultimately intended to invade and annex Russia. Similarly, Britain distrusted Stalin due a fear of communism. Although talks took place between Britain and the Soviet Union in early August 1939 regarding a possible alliance against Hitler, they were never taken seriously by the British who sent their representative by a slow boat and did not grant him authority to make any decisions or sign any agreements on behalf of the government.

Frustrated by Britain’s reluctance to agree to a deal, Stalin’s government received Ribbentrop later that month. He proposed the Nazi-Soviet agreement which, in the face of continued British reluctance to form an alliance, was accepted.

Officially called the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, on the surface the pact guaranteed that neither side would fight against the other in war. However a ‘secret protocol’ also outlined how Eastern Europe would be divided between the two countries in the future. This ensured that the USSR would not intervene in the Nazi invasion of Poland that began just nine days later.

The Soviet government almost certainly knew that Hitler would break the non-aggression pact at some point by invading Russia, but the pact delayed that and gave time to prepare. Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941. All the territory gained by the USSR under terms of the ‘secret protocol’ was lost in just a matter of weeks.
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The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled those two powers to divide-up Poland between them.

It was signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, by Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, and was officially known as the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The Pact's clauses provided a written guarantee of peace by each party towards the other and a declared commitment that neither government would ally itself to or aid an enemy of the other. In addition to the publicly-announced stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol, which defined the borders of Soviet and German spheres of influence across Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. The secret protocol also recognised the interest of Lithuania in the Vilno region, and Germany declared its complete disinterest in Bessarabia. The Secret Protocol was just a rumour until it was made public at the Nuremberg trials.
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The pact was terminated on 22 June 1941, when Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union (thus also executing the ideological goal of Lebensraum). After the war, Ribbentrop was convicted of war crimes and executed. Molotov died at 96 in 1986, five years before the Soviet Union's dissolution.

Soon after World War 2, the German copy of the secret protocol was found in Nazi archives and published in the West, but [in accordance with its tradition of dishonesty] the Soviet government denied its existence until 1989, when it was finally acknowledged and denounced. 

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, condemned the pact. Vladimir Putin has condemned the pact as "immoral" but also defended it as a "necessary evil". On 19 December 2019 Putin went further and at press conference announced that signing of the pact was 'no worse than the 1938 Munich agreement, which led to partition of Czechoslovakia'.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Razzle Dazzle camouflage

British and American Warships Painted Like Zebras in WW1 > .
23-11-17 Evolution of Camouflage/Tank Camouflage - Tank Museum > .
How (modern) battlefield camouflage works - Forces > .

US Army’s Universal Camouflage: A Terrible Mistake - Half > .
IN: The History of Invisibility and the Future of Camouflage - DOCS > .
Naval Camouflage of WW1 and WW2 (Razzle Dazzle) > .
Dazzle Camouflage: Hiding in Plain Sight Exhibition > .
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Camp X - STS 103

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16-2-18 Inside Camp X: Trained to Forget | X Company | CBC > .
24-4-20 Canadian Defense Spending is a Joke | Solutions? - Waro > .
15-6-24 Camp X - U.S. Spy Training School = Americans Unaware - Smith > .
16-6-24 Inside Camp X: Hand-to-Hand Combat | CBC > .
Spy Gadgets Of The Shadow War > .
Camp X was the unofficial name of the secret Special Training School No. 103, a WW2 British paramilitary installation for training covert agents in the methods required for success in clandestine operations. It was located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. The area is known today as Intrepid Park, after the code name for Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), who established the program to create the training facility.

The facility was jointly operated by the Canadian military, with help from Foreign Affairs and the RCMP but commanded by the BSC; it also had close ties with MI-6. In addition to the training program, the Camp had a communications tower that could send and transmit radio and telegraph communications, called Hydra.

Camp X was established December 6, 1941 by the chief of British Security Co-ordination (BSC), Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba and a close confidant of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The camp was originally designed to link Britain and the US at a time when the US was forbidden by the Neutrality Act to be directly involved in WW2.

On the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the war, Camp X had opened for the purpose of training Allied agents from the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) intended to be dropped behind enemy lines for clandestine missions as saboteurs and spies.

However, even before the United States entered the war on December 8, 1941, agents from America's intelligence services expressed an interest in sending personnel for training at the soon to be opened Camp X. Agents from the FBI and the OSS (forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA) secretly attended Camp X in early 1942; at least a dozen attended at least some training.

After Stephenson established the facility and acted as the Camp's first head, the first commandant was Lt. Col. Arthur Terence Roper-Caldbeck. The most notable individual in the Camp's history was Colonel William "Wild Bill" Donovan, war-time head of the OSS, who credited Stephenson with teaching Americans about foreign intelligence gathering. The CIA even named their recruit training facility "The Farm", a nod to the original farm that existed at the Camp X site.

Camp X was jointly operated by the BSC and the Government of Canada. There were several names for the school: S 25-1-1 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Project-J by the Canadian military, and Special Training School No. 103. The latter was set by the Special Operations Executive, administered under the cover of the Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW) which operated the facility. In 1942 the Commandant of the camp was Lieutenant R. M. Brooker of the British Army.

In addition to operating an excellent document forging facility, Camp X trained numerous Allied covert operatives. An estimate published by the CBC states that "By war's end, between 500 and 2,000 Allied agents had been trained (figures vary) and sent abroad..." behind enemy lines.

Reports indicate that graduates worked as "secret agents, security personnel, intelligence officers, or psychological warfare experts, serving in clandestine operations". Many were captured, tortured, and executed; survivors received no individual recognition for their efforts."

The predominant close-combat trainer for the British Special Operations Executive was William E. Fairbairn, called "Dangerous Dan". With instructor Eric A. Sykes, they trained numerous agents for the SOE and OSS. Fairbairn's technique was "Get down in the gutter, and win at all costs … no more playing fair … to kill or be killed."

"Trainees at the camp learned sabotage techniques, subversion, intelligence gathering, lock picking, explosives training, radio communications, encode/decode, recruiting techniques for partisans, the art of silent killing and unarmed combat." 

One of the unique features of Camp X was Hydra, a highly sophisticated telecommunications relay station established in May 1942 by engineer Benjamin deForest Bayly. Bayly was the assistant director, with British army rank of lieutenant colonel. He also invented a very fast offline, one-time tape cipher machine for coding/decoding telegraph transmissions labelled the Rockex or "Telekrypton".

Communication training, including Morse code, was also provided. The camp was so secret that even Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was unaware of its full purpose.

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After it had closed, starting in the autumn of 1945, Camp X was used by the RCMP as a secure location for interviewing Soviet embassy GRU cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko, who had defected to Canada on September 5, 1945 (3 days after end of WW2) and revealed an extensive Soviet espionage operation in the country. Gouzenko provided 109 documents on the USSR′s espionage activities in the West. This forced Canada′s Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.

Gouzenko exposed Soviet intelligence' efforts to steal nuclear secrets as well as the technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War, with historian Jack Granatstein stating it was "the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion" and journalist Robert Fulford writing he was "absolutely certain the Cold War began in Ottawa". Granville Hicks described Gouzenko's actions as having "awakened the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage".

Gouzenko passed along copies of GRU documents implicating British physicist Nunn May, including details of the proposed meeting in London. 

 Nunn May did not go to the British Museum meeting, but he was arrested in March 1946. Nunn May confessed to espionage. On 1 May 1946, he was sentenced to ten years' hard labour. He was released in late 1952, after serving six and a half years.  

Gouzenko and his family spent two years at the Camp X facility.

The training facility closed before the end of 1944; the buildings were removed in 1969 and a monument was erected at the site.



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Saturday, June 23, 2018

ФСБ - NKVD, KGB, FSB

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23-5-4 Ruscist Intelligence Capabilities in Decline || Peter Zeihan > .
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Monday, June 11, 2018

Red Eyes - Xina Spies

22-8-2 Xinese Spies are Among Us! - cfc > .
24-5-8 [TikTok chaos as XiPaganda tool; microchips & Taiwan] - Feriss > .
22-9-29 What Captured Chinese Spy's Phone Taught the US - BlQt > .

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Sunday, June 10, 2018

Secret Service

The Night Pilot and The Secret Service - Time > .British Secret Agents Of WW2 | Secret Service - Time > .
British Secret Service's War With Hitler | Secret Service - Time > .


Hugh Verity was a night flight pilot in WW2 until 1942 when he volunteered for RAF special duties and became involved in one of the most extraordinary and effective operations of the secret war - flying from England's Sussex coast in a single-engine Lysander aircraft and landing in German occupied France delivering and collecting agents of the French Resistance in absolute secrecy - by the light of the moon. This is the story of those secret missions by moonlight.

Between 1941-44 Diana Viscomtesse de Rosso moved in the shadowy world of secret agents and secret information as a private courier for two of the most powerful spymasters of World War Two. 

Women in the Military - watm >> . 

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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Poseidon Ripples

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24-11-25 [Debunking Ruscia's 'Atomic Tsunami' Scare Tactics] - ingomar200 > .
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Friday, October 27, 2017

Brainwashing - промывание мозгов

22-9-1 Propaganda at school - (Tsar Runt's desperation) (English subtitles) - Katz > .
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

DPRK - Anti-Western Propaganda

Sour-cherry picking by one of the planet's most oppressive regimes ...

24-2-10 KOREA | A Final Separation? - Prof J K-L > .
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Dystopian Narratives

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George Orwell's 1984: Why it still matters - BBC N > .25-1-15 BATTLE Over George Orwell: How Elon Musk et al Misuse Him - i Paper > .


Organ harvesting in Xina

A growing body of research shows that there is no ‘strong toggle’ in the brain between fiction and nonfiction. People often incorporate lessons from fictional stories into their beliefs, attitudes and value judgments, sometimes without even being aware that they are doing so.

Dystopian fiction is likely to be especially powerful because it is inherently political. The totalitarian-dystopian genre portrays a dark and disturbing alternative world where powerful entities act to oppress and control citizens, violating fundamental values as a matter of course. Post-apocalyptic narratives, including those about zombies, can also be considered ‘dystopian’. However, the standard setting is politically very different, emphasising chaos and the collapse of social order, and thus is likely to affect people in different ways.

Individual totalitarian-dystopian storylines vary. To give a few popular examples, torture and surveillance feature in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949); organ harvesting in the Unwind series (2007-) by Neal Shusterman; mandatory plastic surgery in the Uglies series (2005-7) by Scott Westerfeld; mind control in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993); gender inequality in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985); government-arranged marriage in the Matched trilogy (2010-12) by Ally Condie; and environmental disaster in the Maze Runner series (2009-16) by James Dashner. But all such narratives conform to genre conventions of character, setting and plot. ... In these societies ‘the ideals for improvement have gone tragically amok’. While there are occasional exceptions, dystopian fiction typically valorises dramatic and often violent rebellion by a courageous few.
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Is dystopian fiction a threat to democracy and political stability? Not necessarily, although the fact that it is sometimes censored suggests that some leaders do think along these lines. For example, Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) is still banned in North Korea, and even in the US, the top 10 books most frequently targeted for removal from school libraries in the past decade include The Hunger Games and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1931). Dystopian narratives offer the lesson that radical political action can be a legitimate response to perceived injustice. However, the lessons people take away from media, be it fiction or nonfiction, might not always stick and, even when they do stick, people don’t necessarily act on them.

Dystopian fiction continues to offer a powerful lens through which people view the ethics of politics and power. Such narratives might have a positive effect in keeping citizens alert to the possibility of injustice in a variety of contexts, ranging from climate change and artificial intelligence to authoritarian resurgences worldwide. But a proliferation of dystopian narratives might also encourage radical, Manichaean perspectives that oversimplify real and complex sources of political disagreement. So while the totalitarian-dystopian craze might nourish society’s ‘watchdog’ role in holding power to account, it can also fasttrack some to violent political rhetoric – and even action – as opposed to the civil and fact-based debate and compromise necessary for democracy to thrive.
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