Activity 2
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1984
By George Orwell
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The article, “The Danger of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present” by Richard M. Ebeling, argues and explains how totalitarianism is dangerous to our society. This article was found on the American Institute for Economic Research (or the AIER) which was created to educate others on Economics and Politics.
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Some totalitarian affects to our society stated by Richard Ebeling are that “Our minds are to be re-educated, our words must be policed, our actions must be under surveillance, so that all may be made to think one way” which stresses that “the interests of the nation-state, or the “master race” came before the individual human being.”
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These affects of totalitarianism were all too familiar to the world of “1984” in which all forms of individual freedom are extinguished. In examples provided by Richard such Communist Russia or Communist China; freedom of speech, press, religion, and of protest were suppressed and removed in order for the government to control its people.
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In conclusion, totalitarianism will cause the end of a free society and of individual freedoms in order to maintain power over its people. Therefore, the conflicts caused by a totalitarian regime make what happened in “1984” a important reminder and warning of what a loss of freedoms and life under totalitarianism would be like.
Works Cited
- Ebeling, Richard M. “The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present.”American Institute for Economic Research, 3 Feb. 2021, aier.org/article/the-dangers-of-totalitarian-planning-past-and-present/. 26 Aug. 2022.
- Orwell, George. “1984”. Secker and Warburg, June 8. 1949.
