The Ministry of Truth
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“One of the biggest challenges”—My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Episode 1, Netflix, 2018.
“the Ministry of Truth with ML systems”—Twitter, @alexstamos, October 7, 2017.
The Washington Post calculated—At https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database.
“Truth isn’t truth!”—Meet the Press, NBC, August 19, 2018.
“Many dangerous ideas”—Dee Rees in Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (Gollancz, 2017), p. 54.
“What you’re seeing”—Donald Trump speech to Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, July 24, 2018.
“The party told you to reject”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 84.
“one is reminded of what Orwell got right”—Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America,” Newyorker.com, January 27, 2017.
“I am willing to believe”—“Looking Back on the Spanish War,” CW XIII, 1421, p. 504.
“If men continue to believe”—Life, July 4, 1949.
AFTERWORD
“2 + 2 = 5”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 303.
“I think you need that moment”—Author interview with Michael Radford.
“spirit of Man”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 282.
“power of facing unpleasant facts”—Orwell, “Why I Write,” CW XVIII, 3007, p. 316.
“To read this novel”—Partisan Review, July 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 270.
“for the future, for the unborn”—Orwell, CW IX, p. 9.
“are not indestructible”—Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press,” CW XVII, 2721, p. 258.
INDEX
NOTE: George Orwell is also referred to as GO in this index.
A.D. 2050: Electrical Development at Atlantis (Bachelder), ref1
Adam, Eugene, ref1
The Adelphi (Orwell), ref1
After London (Jefferies), ref1
Aims of Industry, ref1
“Aladdin Sane (1913–197?)” (Bowie), ref1
Albert, Eddie, ref1
Allbeury, Ted, ref1
Allen, Woody, ref1
All-Russian Union of Writers (VSP), ref1, ref2
Alphaville (Godard), ref1
alternative facts, ref1
Altrurian Trilogy (Howells), ref1
Alverson, Charles, ref1
Amalrik, Andrei, ref1
American Committee for Cultural Freedom, ref1
Amis, Kingsley, ref1
Amis, Martin, ref1
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman), ref1, ref2, ref3
Anand, Mulk Raj, ref1
Andersen, Hans Christian, ref1
Anderson, Laurie, ref1
Anderson, Michael, ref1
Animal Farm (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
CIA-funded film version, ref1
critical response, ref1, ref2, ref3
erosion of memory, ref1
preface, ref1, ref2
proto-Newspeak, ref1
publication, ref1, ref2
radio debut, ref1
Russian version, ref1
sales and earnings, ref1, ref2
as Soviet allegory, ref1, ref2, ref3
Spanish Civil War, ref1
translations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Anthem (Rand), ref1, ref2
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Wells), ref1
antisemitism, ref1, ref2
“Antisemitism in Britain” (Orwell), ref1
anti-utopias. See dystopia
Appendix Theory, ref1, ref2, ref3
Applebaum, Anne, ref1
Apple Computer, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Arendt, Hannah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Arrival and Departure (Koestler), ref1
Artists in Uniform (Eastman), ref1
“The Art of Donald McGill” (Orwell), ref1
Asimov, Isaac, ref1, ref2
“As I Please” column, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
al-Assad, Bashar, ref1
Assignment in Utopia (Lyons), ref1, ref2, ref3
Astor, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Astor, John Jacob, ref1
Astra, Gunārs, ref1
atomic bombs, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Attila (Zamyatin), ref1
Attlee, Clement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
democratic socialism, ref1, ref2
Labour government, ref1, ref2, ref3
National Health Service, ref1
1945 election victory, ref1
Atwood, Margaret, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (Wells), ref1
Averbakh, Leopold, ref1, ref2
Ayer, A. J., ref1, ref2
Bachelder, John, ref1
Bacon, Francis, ref1, ref2
Bannier, Louis, ref1
Basic English, ref1
Batchelor, Joy, ref1
Baum, L. Frank, ref1
BBC, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
GO’s employment, ref1, ref2, ref3
television service, ref1
wartime propaganda, ref1, ref2
Beausobre, Iulia de, ref1
Beauvoir, Simone de, ref1
Beaverbrook, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beckett, Samuel, ref1
Beckwith, Reginald, ref1
Bedford, Sybille, ref1
Beevor, Antony, ref1
Bell, Daniel, ref1
Bellamy, Charles, ref1
Bellamy, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Bellamy, Francis, ref1
Belloc, Hilaire, ref1
Bellow, Saul, ref1
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bennett, Arnold, ref1, ref2
Bentham, Jeremy, ref1
Benton, Kenneth, ref1
Berdiaeff, Nicolas, ref1
Berzin, Yan, ref1, ref2
Betjeman, John, ref1
The Betrayal of the Left (ed. Gollancz), ref1
Between Two Men (le Gros Clark), ref1
Beuys, Joseph, ref1
Bevan, Aneurin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bevin, Ernest, ref1
Bezymensky, Alexander Ilyich, ref1
“Big Brother” (Bowie), ref1, ref2
“Big Brother” (Wonder), ref1
Big Brother TV show, ref1
Black Mirror (Brooker), ref1
Black Panthers, ref1
Blade Runner (Scott), ref1
Blair, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
death, ref1, ref2
on GO, ref1, ref2, ref3
marriage to GO, ref1
Spanish Civil War, ref1, ref2
World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Blair, Eric Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 See also Orwell, George
Blair, Ida, ref1, ref2
Blair, Richard, ref1, ref2
Blair, Richard Horatio, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Blake’s 7 series (BBC), ref1
Bloom, Harold, ref1
Bokhari, Z. A., ref1, ref2
Bolan, Marc, ref1
Book-of-the-Month Club, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Borkenau, Franz, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Bower, Anthony, ref1
Bowie, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Boys in Brown (Beckwith), ref1
Bracken, Brendan, ref1
Bradbury, Ray, ref1
Bragg, Billy, ref1,
Bramah, Ernest, ref1
Branson, Richard, ref1
Branthwaite, Jack, ref1
Brave New World (Huxley), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Brazil (Gilliam), ref1, ref2
Brech, Ronald, ref1
Brenton, Howard, ref1
Brewin, Bob, ref1
Brezhnev, Leonid, ref1
Britain 1984: Unilever’s Forecast (Brech), ref1
British Committee for Cultural Freedom, ref1
British Union of Fascists, ref1
Brockway, Fenner, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brooker, Charlie, ref1
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), ref1
Bryan, William Jennings, ref1
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, ref1
Buddicom, Jacintha, ref1, ref2, ref3
Burdekin, Katharine, ref1
Burgess, Anthony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Burgess, Guy, ref1
Burmese Days (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Burnham, James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Burroughs, William S., ref1, ref2
Burton, Richard, ref1
Bush, George W., administration, ref1
Butler, Samuel, ref1
cacotopia, ref1
Caesar’s Column (Donnelly), ref1
Cage, John, ref1
Calder-Marshall, Arthur, ref1
Cameron, Angus, ref1
Cameron, James, ref1
Camus, Albert, ref1, ref2
“Can Socialists Be Happy?” (Orwell), ref1
Cantril, Hadley, ref1
Cape, Jonathan, ref1, ref2
Čapek, Karel, ref1
capitalism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Carlile, Alex, ref1
Carlyle, Thomas, ref1
Cartier, Rudolph, ref1
Cauchemar (Souvarine), ref1
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ref1, ref2, ref3
Chalfont, Lord, ref1
Chamberlain, Neville, ref1, ref2
“Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family” (Bowie), ref1
Chaplin, Charlie, ref1
Chekhov, Anton, ref1
Chesterton, G. K., ref1, ref2, ref3
Chiat/Day agency, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chicago World’s Fair, ref1
Children of Men (Cuarón), ref1, ref2
Chile, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chomsky, Noam, ref1
Christen, Miranda, ref1, ref2
A Christmas Carol (Dickens), ref1
Churchill, Randolph, ref1
Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
autobiography, ref1
1945 electoral loss, ref1, ref2
on Nineteen Eighty-Four, ref1
speeches, ref1
See also World War II
The Churchill Play (Brenton), ref1
CIA, ref1
The Circle (Eggers), ref1
Civil Assistance, ref1
Clark, J. B., ref1
Clarke, Thurston, ref1
the Clash, ref1
A Clergyman’s Daughter (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3
Clinton, Hillary, ref1
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), ref1, ref2, ref3
Clow, Lee, ref1
Cockburn, Alexander, ref1
Coefficients, ref1
cognitive bias, ref1
Cohn, Roy, ref1, ref2
cold war, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
1970s pessimism, ref1
adaptations of GO’s works, ref1, ref2, ref3
anti-communist orthodoxy, ref1, ref2
blacklisted books, ref1
dystopian fiction, ref1
former communists, ref1, ref2
GO’s list of names, ref1
Hungarian uprising, ref1
McCarthyism, ref1
Noncommunist Left, ref1
Orwellian language, ref1
See also post-war era
The Collapse of Democracy (Moss), ref1
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, ref1
Collins, Norman, ref1
Collins, Suzanne, ref1
Comfort, Alex, ref1
comic books, ref1, ref2
The Coming Struggle for Power (Strachey), ref1
Coming Up for Air (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3
Committee for the Free World, ref1
Common, Jack, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
communism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
anti-war beliefs, ref1
capitalist propaganda on, ref1
Comintern/Cominform organisations, ref1, ref2
The Daily Worker publication, ref1
fall of the Soviet Union, ref1
GO’s critiques, ref1, ref2
Rand’s critiques, ref1
See also Soviet Union
The Communist International (Borkenau), ref1
Communist Party of Germany, ref1
Communist Party of Great Britain, ref1, ref2
The Complete Works of George Orwell (ed. Davison), ref1
computer technology and data, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Comte, Auguste, ref1
Conan Doyle, Arthur, ref1, ref2
Congress for Cultural Freedom, ref1, ref2
Connolly, Cyril, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
fiction, ref1
on GO, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Horizon magazine, ref1, ref2, ref3
Connor, William, ref1
Conrad, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Conservative Party (Britain), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
1945 electoral loss, ref1, ref2
Constantine, Murray. See Burdekin, Katharine
Conway, Kellyanne, ref1
Cooper, Lettice, ref1, ref2, ref3
Corbett, Elizabeth, ref1
Cosgrave, Patrick, ref1, ref2
Cottman, Stafford, ref1
Coulson, William F., ref1
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Wells), ref1
Cox, Jo, ref1
Crane, Stephen, ref1
Crick, Bernard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cripps, Stafford, ref1
Crist, Judith, ref1
Critical Essays (Orwell), ref1
Crome Yellow (Huxley), ref1
Cronkite, Walter, ref1, ref2
Crossman, Richard, ref1
A Crystal Age (Hudson), ref1
The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (BBC), ref1
Cuadernos magazine, ref1
Cuarón, Alfonso, ref1
Cunningham, Merce, ref1
Curran, Charles, ref1, ref2
Curtis, Jamie Lee, ref1
Cushing, Peter, ref1, ref2
The Daily Worker, ref1
Dakin, Humphrey, ref1, ref2
Dakin, Marjorie Blair, ref1, ref2
Dalí, Salvador, ref1, ref2
Dalos, György, ref1, ref2
Dalton, Hugh, ref1
Danger Man, ref1
Darkness at Noon (Koestler), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Darrow, Clarence, ref1
Das Kapital (Marx & Engels), ref1
Davies, John, ref1
Davison, Peter, ref1
DC Comics, ref1
Dead Kennedys, ref1
Deakins, Roger, ref1
Dean, Abner, ref1
The Death of British Democracy (Haseler), ref1, ref2
Debs, Eugene, ref1, ref2
“Declaration of the Rights of Man” (Wells), ref1
democratic socialism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
de Mol, John, Jr., ref1
Der Monat magazine, ref1, ref2
de Rochemont, Louis, ref1
Destiny (Edgar), ref1
The Destruction of Gotham (J. Miller), ref1
Deutscher, Isaac, ref1, ref2, ref3
Diamond Dogs (Bowie), ref1
Dick, Philip K., ref1
Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
disinformation. See propaganda and lies
Disney, Walt, ref1, ref2
The Dispossessed (Le Guin), ref1
Djilas, Milovan, ref1
Doctorow, E. L., ref1
“Dodo” (Bowie), ref1
Donnelly, Ignatius, ref1
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Dos Passos, John, ref1, ref2
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, ref1, ref2
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
The Dream (Wells), ref1
Dr. Heidenhoff ’s Process (Bellamy), ref1
Dugin, Aleksandr, ref1
Dukes, Paul, ref1
Dunn, Avril Blair, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Dunn, Bill, ref1, ref2, ref3
Durrell, Lawrence, ref1
Dutt, R. Palme, ref1
dystopia, ref1, ref2
dystopian fiction, ref1, ref2, ref3
feminist forms, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Huxley’s Brave New World, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
literature of disillusionment, ref1
mutability of myth in, ref1
science and technology in, ref1, ref2, ref3
Wells’s impact, ref1, ref2
Zamyatin’s We, ref1
See also Nineteen Eighty-Four
dystopian terminology, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
in Animal Farm, ref1
brainwashing, ref1
cold war, ref1, ref2
fabrication and usage, ref1, ref2
Ogden’s Basic English model, ref1
See also Nineteen Eighty-Four phrases and concepts; propaganda and lies
Eastern Europe, ref1, ref2, ref3
Eastman, Max, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Eccleston, Christopher, ref1
Eder, Richard, ref1
Edgar, David, ref1
Edmonds, Ben, ref1
Eggers, Dave, ref1
Eisenhower, Dwight, ref1, ref2
Electric Dreams anthology, ref1
Eliot, T. S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Elton, Ben, ref1
The Emerald City of Oz (Baum), ref1
Empson, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Encounter magazine, ref1
The English Utopia (Morton), ref1
An Epic of the Gestapo (Dukes), ref1
Equality (Bellamy), ref1
Erewhon (Butler), ref1
Escape, ref1
Esperanto, ref1
Esslin, Martin, ref1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ref1
European Union, ref1
Eurythmics, ref1
Ezquerra, Carlos, ref1
Faber, Geoffrey, ref1
Fabian Essays in Socialism, ref1
Fabian Society, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Facebook, ref1, ref2, ref3
Facial Justice (Hartley), ref1
Fahrenheit 9/11 (M. Moore), ref1
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), ref1, ref2, ref3
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, ref1
Farmer, Richard N., ref1
Farrer, David, ref1
fascism, ref1, ref2, ref3
capitalism and, ref1, ref2, ref3
contemporary relevance, ref1, ref2