The successful exercise of power requires a social cage restricting the citizen’s option of leaving, a “closing of the escape route,” if you will.
Author: Aral Bereux
The History of Cancer Treatment Will Terrify You
Rockefeller ensured the chemicals his company produced were the only chemicals used as the basis of chemical intervention against all diseases, no matter what they were—and his intention was to rid the medical colleges of holistic medicine.
The Top 12 Dystopian Musts For Dystopian Junkies
This is an easy dystopian or anti-utopian read, even for the fussiest of readers.
DOES IT MATTER IF FILM DISTORTS HISTORY: A STUDY OF 300
The glorification of these ideologies endangers the future perceptions that one day may inspire peace.
PLATOON, A FORGOTTEN WAR MOVIE IN A TIME OF CHAOS
Historical films can be a ‘powerful tool in the incitement of desire and the fantasy of history,’ inviting us to view the past from the safety of our living room.
Australia has gone woke. ‘Mateship’ is on the brink of being banned.
Just picture an Australian culture where ‘She’ll be right, mate’ and G’day, mate’ are outlawed, banned, possibly even illegal with hefty fines.
Divide and Conquer They Have. What Comes Next?
They have taken advantage of your fear, heightened it, and then exploited it. But to admit that we’ve been fooled is to admit we’re wrong.
Want to Prepare for the Next Pandemic? Read These Five Books on Expertise
The rest of 2021 is shaping up to be a sequel to a movie that never should have been made in the first place: from the people who brought you Pandemic 2020 comes the smash hit sequel Pandemic 2021: Delta Variant. New CDC masking “guidelines” make me wonder about further restrictions, all from “the experts” who…
10 Books On Liberty that You Haven’t Read but Should
The great variety of influential books that are not (yet) as widely known and read as they deserve to be testifies to the richness of libertarian scholarly tradition.
Governments Implement Predictive Analytics to Spy on Social Media Content, Preempting Social Unrest
Surveillance is forever evolving, despite Snowden’s actions and Assange’s warnings. It’s here and it’s here to stay while the corporations continue throwing their weight behind programs that governments insist on having to spy on their citizens. In the name of terrorism and national security, right? Predictive analytics are the rage. According to Lockheed Martin, if you…
Write an Ending That’s Right for Your Book
On occasion, writers try too hard to write a twist at the ending of the book. It comes in the form of a cliffhanger or departs from the audience-capturing content already written in prior chapters. The important issue at hand is don’t. Forget the cliffhanger unless you’re planning a sequel, and forget the plot twist…
Writing Dystopia? Try These Writing Exercises First.
Before you commit yourself to thousands of words, see how you go with these tasks. They may seem simple, but I promise they’ll help with your insight.