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Conservatism and Sociology
Conservatism and Sociology Mark Wegierski, on the science of power In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a central point is that semantics are critical for the maintenance of a given social and political system. “Newspeak is Ingsoc, and Ingsoc is … Continue reading
On the Road
On the Road … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Sillitoe, George Orwell, Jim Cartwright, Road
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Violence in a Civilised Society (1)
Violence in a Civilised Society (1) Part one of a two part essay, by Mark Wegierski Organized social violence is only one of a panoply of coercive controls which society uses to “keep people in line.” A distinction may be drawn … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Classical Liberalism, George Orwell, Mass Immigration, Violence
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Canada, Matrix of Modernity, part 2
Canada, Matrix of Modernity, part 2 Mark Wegierski continues his analysis An essay based on an English-language presentation read at the First Sir Thomas More Colloquium: ‘Diplomacy, Literature, Politics’, at the Akademia Polonijna (Polonia University) in Czestochowa, Poland, held … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Canada, George Orwell, James Burnham, Soft-totalitarianism
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Canada, Matrix of Modernity
Canada, Matrix of Modernity On the Sesquicentennial of Canadian Confederation, Mark Wegierski considers the emergence of the “managerial-therapeutic regime” The Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) of Canadian Confederation is being celebrated in 2017 (July 1). Nevertheless, it is clear that Canada today … Continue reading
Vimy Ridge, 100 Years On
Vimy Ridge, 100 Years On For Mark Wegierski, history defines us To many current-day observers, Canada’s participation in the First World War, and the great victory at Vimy Ridge in 1917, may seem far away. The tide of change in Canada … Continue reading
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Tagged George Orwell, Mark Wegierski, Vimy Ridge
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The Dilemma of Hypermodernity, part one
The Dilemma of Hypermodernity, part one Mark Wegierski espies an escape route for humanity An earlier, academic version of this essay has appeared in “This World: Religion and Public Life” (Culture and Consumption) no. 31 (2000) (New Brunswick, USA and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Hypermodernity, Mark Wegierski
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Tradition in Fantasy and Science Fiction
Tradition in Fantasy and Science Fiction Mark Wegierski examines four main foci for traditionalist impulses in these genres [This article is based on a draft of a presentation read at the Fantastic Literature Conference, The Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature … Continue reading
Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE
Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading
Victorian Values
Victorian Values by Bill Hartley In May of this year the Guardian featured a story about feminist author Naomi Wolf who had recently published a book called Outrages. The book has been described as ‘the dramatic, buried history of how nineteenth … Continue reading →
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