{"id":2066,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/who-controls-the-past-controls-the-future-who-controls-the-present-controls-the-past-a-discussion-into-the-manipulation-of-history-in-relation-to-power-in-orwells-1984\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"who-controls-the-past-controls-the-future-who-controls-the-present-controls-the-past-a-discussion-into-the-manipulation-of-history-in-relation-to-power-in-orwells-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/who-controls-the-past-controls-the-future-who-controls-the-present-controls-the-past-a-discussion-into-the-manipulation-of-history-in-relation-to-power-in-orwells-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Controls the Past Controls the Future, Who Controls the Present Controls the Past. A Discussion into the Manipulation of History in Relation to Power in Orwell&#8217;s 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Novel<br \/>\nBig Brother, Continuous war, ever present government surveillance, mind control, eradication of independent thought, manipulation of history and written record  <\/p>\n<p>Power<br \/>\nPower in its third dimension:<br \/>\nBeing complicit in one\u2019s own domination<br \/>\nIdeologies are promoted; the masses are forced to believe that what they think is in their interests are furthering the interests of those in power <\/p>\n<p>Hegel<br \/>\nCulture and knowledge are liberating; culture makes an individual rational<br \/>\nThe course of history is governed through a development of \u2018progress\u2019<br \/>\nProgress toward emancipation and empowerment<\/p>\n<p>Lyotard<br \/>\nCrisis in modernity; loss of belief in metanarratives<br \/>\nPower is maintained through a manipulation of historical record<br \/>\nno one can \u2018know\u2019 anything anymore; the interests of those in power are maintained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Cotton, 2013, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,123],"tags":[156,98,394],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-history","tag-literature","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}