Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
Continuing with 1984. How does the book relate to real-world politics? Is this something that we should actually be afraid our society will turn into? Was he predicting history, or was it satire, or what? We discuss the the realms of intimacy vs. surveillance, how a state might "contain" a mind that it controls, and "doublethink."
Listen to part 1 first, or get the ad-free Citizen Edition.
End song: "Civil Disobedience" by Camper Van Beethoven from New Roman Times (2004), written by Jonathan Segel as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music ep. 38.