Ministries of Truth
How do modern authoritarians bend reality without firing a shot? From Orwell’s 1984 to today’s digital echo chambers, this piece explores how truth is quietly rewritten through manipulated language, algorithm-fed confusion, and endless information noise. Figures like Trump, Putin, Modi, and Netanyahu don’t just lie — they build entire alternative realities that feel more real than truth itself.
In a world where facts are buried under spin and reality becomes a loyalty test, the question isn’t just “what’s true?” — it’s whether we’re still paying attention.
The Meaning Wars
How does power reshape reality? This piece explores how modern authoritarians—from Putin to Trump—weaponise language to blur truth, shut down debate, and make the unacceptable seem necessary. Drawing on Orwell, Wittgenstein, and Saussure, it shows how words like freedom, security, and truth are emptied of meaning and repurposed for control.
If you want to understand how democracy erodes without a shot being fired, start by listening to the words—and questioning who’s shaping them.