“He who controls the media. Controls the masses”
Imagine if someone had the power to simply erase a historical event and anyone associated with it. Not only that, but they could also completely rewrite that historical event. Imagine if someone who said something and the government had them executed. Then in the newspaper the next day he is labelled as a traitor. This is what was happening inside “The Ministry of Truth (minitrue)’ in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”. the warnings, themes and messages present in the book are still relevant today in modern countries. The censorship and manipulation of the media by the ministry of truth in 1984 are still relevant today in the Chinese government.
The Chinese government has long kept tight reins on both traditional and new media to …show more content…
This spiritual factor is as important to mankind as physical factors such as race and land. Cultural developments define the history of a nation’s civilization. The complete destruction of a national culture leads to the end of the nation. Ancient nations that had created glorious civilizations were considered to have vanished when their cultures disappeared, even though people of their races may have survived. One of the problems that was raised in 1984 is that history is changeable and the truth is what Ingsoc sees as truth. The truths found in history are the bases of the principles of the future. The current governing body of china the Communist party of China has been destroying ancient Chinese history because the ancient Chinese were not aethist .The “philosophy” of the Communist Party completely contradicts the authentic traditional Chinese culture. Traditional culture respects the mandate of heaven. As Confucius oncae said, “Life and death are predestined, and wealth and rank are determined by heaven.” Both Buddhism and Taoism are forms of theism and believe in the reincarnation cycle of life and death and the karmic causality of good and
Imagine if someone had the power to simply erase a historical event and anyone associated with it. Not only that, but they could also completely rewrite that historical event. Imagine if someone who said something and the government had them executed. Then in the newspaper the next day he is labelled as a traitor. This is what was happening inside “The Ministry of Truth (minitrue)’ in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”. the warnings, themes and messages present in the book are still relevant today in modern countries. The censorship and manipulation of the media by the ministry of truth in 1984 are still relevant today in the Chinese government.
The Chinese government has long kept tight reins on both traditional and new media to …show more content…
This spiritual factor is as important to mankind as physical factors such as race and land. Cultural developments define the history of a nation’s civilization. The complete destruction of a national culture leads to the end of the nation. Ancient nations that had created glorious civilizations were considered to have vanished when their cultures disappeared, even though people of their races may have survived. One of the problems that was raised in 1984 is that history is changeable and the truth is what Ingsoc sees as truth. The truths found in history are the bases of the principles of the future. The current governing body of china the Communist party of China has been destroying ancient Chinese history because the ancient Chinese were not aethist .The “philosophy” of the Communist Party completely contradicts the authentic traditional Chinese culture. Traditional culture respects the mandate of heaven. As Confucius oncae said, “Life and death are predestined, and wealth and rank are determined by heaven.” Both Buddhism and Taoism are forms of theism and believe in the reincarnation cycle of life and death and the karmic causality of good and