Year: 2017

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“They started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed under it. Before long, a monkey went to the stairs and started to climb towards the banana. As soon as he started up the stairs, the psychologists sprayed all of the…
Discipline Sociology
Subject Conditioning • Culture • Education • Experiment

The theorem of monkeys

Cover image: © Matt Reinbold from Bismarck
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A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that…

— George Orwell.
Discipline Literature
Subject Freedom of speech
Work Nineteen Eighty-Four
Creator George Orwell

The Thought Police

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