" Orwellian " describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

Continuing, Orwell describes the general feeling of the new society that was built within the shell of the old, offering specific elaborations on the effective destruction of hierarchical arrangements that he'd perceived in anarchist Spain.

One analyst, Michael Shelden, calls Newspeak " the perfect language for a society of bad writers ( like those Orwell describes in " Politics and the English Language ") because it reduces the number of choices available to them.

He agrees with Alain Besançon that the totalitarian society envisaged by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four can be only understood in theological terms, as a society founded on a transcendental negation.

The first, Red Black and Ignorant ( written for a Festival dedicated to George Orwell ), is a short agit-prop play in which a child, aborted and burnt to death in the nuclear global bombings, comes from the future to accuse the society of the audience of his murder.

The essay lashes out at the hypocrisy of the Edwardian society in which Orwell grew up and in which a boy was " bidden to be at once a Christian and a social success, which is impossible.

George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature.

He describes an archaeologist as a professional detective of the past who has the ability to reveal secrets for the greater of society.

Francis Bacon's 1627 essay The New Atlantis describes a utopian society that he called Bensalem, located off the western coast of America.

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

The Tao Te Ching focuses upon the beginnings of society, and describes a golden age in the past, comparable with the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

Rushton describes " ethnic conflict and rivalry " as " one of the great themes of historical and contemporary society ", and suggests that this may have its roots in the evolutionary impact on individuals from groups " giving preferential treatment to genetically similar others.

More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Metalcore band, Norma Jean, derived the title of their song " No Passenger: No Parasite " from the section in the book in which Lewis describes a fully Christian society as having " No passengers or parasites ".

There are two main perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism, one is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth ; the other is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society.

There are two major bodies of thought on the causes of nationalism, one is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society, in order to exist ; the other is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth.

One admirer of Heinlein has said that the society depicted in the film showed only a superficial resemblance to the society that Heinlein describes in his book.

" Living with corruption ", his latest documentary shown on CNN, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.

The Mahavansa describes the existence of fields of rice and reservoirs, indicating a well-developed agrarian society.

Ecological utopian society describes new ways in which society should relate to nature.

Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable.

It was very droll, and he read it admirably .” Cleasby describes him as “ an uncommonly animated, jovial fellow .” He was, accordingly, much sought in society, which he frequented much more than his brother.

Robert S. Leiken describes describes Muslim immigrant communities in Europe as " something like a Muslim internal colony ," in which the immigrant becomes " not so much a member of British society as a colonial of his clan and village ".

Not only have the authors above documented how civil society produces sources of social capital, but in Lyons work " Third Sector ", social capital does not appear in any guise under either the factors that enable or those that stimulate the growth of the third sector, and Onyx describes how social capital depends on an already functioning community.

Guanxi describes the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence, and is a central idea in Chinese society.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

Some, like Henry Sidgwick, argue that a certain degree of egoism promotes the general welfare of society for two reasons: because individuals know how to please themselves best, and because if everyone were an austere altruist then general welfare would inevitably decrease.

His solution involved a return to an idealised view of a corporate or organic society, in which everyone had duties and responsibilities towards other people or groups.

They believed that everyone in society could benefit from experiencing such power and that if everyone could interact with computers in the way that hackers did, then the hacker ethic might spread through society and computers would improve the world.

By forcing everyone in society to be a policyholder and pay premiums, it ensures that everyone can become a claimant when or if he / she needs to.

If anything, the goal behind outing is to show just how many gay people there are among the most visible people in our society so that when someone outs the milkman or the spinster, everyone will say, ' So what?

Opponents of certain privatizations believe that certain public goods and services should remain primarily in the hands of government in order to ensure that everyone in society has access to them ( such as law enforcement, basic health care, and basic education ).

Radical feminists also believe that eliminating patriarchy, and other systems which perpetuate the domination of one group over another, will liberate everyone from an unjust society.

This acts as a mechanism to transfer the wealth of society to those that can print money, from everyone else.

He seeks to find a parsimonious basis for a moral beginning for society, a kind of natural law that everyone could accept.

Following the Satanic creed of " Responsibility to the responsible ", in a Satanic society, everyone must experience the consequences of their own actions — for good or ill ."

In his view, people should own the productive results of their efforts and everything found in nature, most importantly land, should belong equally to everyone in society.

As a social insurance program, Medicare spreads the financial risk associated with illness across society to protect everyone, and thus has a somewhat different social role from for-profit private insurers, which manage their risk portfolio to maximize profitability by denying claims.

The Culture is characterized by being a post-scarcity society ( meaning that its advanced technologies provide practically limitless material wealth and comforts for everyone for free, having all but abolished the concept of possessions ), by having overcome almost all physical constraints on life ( including disease and death ) and by being an almost totally egalitarian, stable society without the use of any form of force or compulsion, except where necessary to protect others.

Supporters say that watching all Internet traffic is important, because by knowing everything that everyone is reading and writing, they can identify terrorists and criminals, and protect society from them.

Not all members of a society may have equal access to the law or to information, even when everyone is theoretically equal under the law, as in a liberal democracy.

Distraught by the failure of the procedure, Tyler runs through the hospital as the disfigured faces of everyone she runs into, the norm in this society, are revealed.

This implies that everyone is afraid of being part of the poor members of society, so the social contract is constructed to help the least well off members.