The Utilitarian

My first ever wikipedia contribution / edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_under_Socialism Political philosopher Slavoj Zizek shares Wildean sentiments and intellectual contempt for charity, noting that the problem of poverty will never be solved simply by keeping poor people alive, quoting the relevant passages from Wilde’s essay in his lectures[10] and book[11]. Without simply it implies that Zizek and Wilde advocate genocide [...]

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Burke never said this but, in 1770, he wrote in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents that “when bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. The term in current use is now appropriated to the Press, with the earliest use in this [...]

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Catalysts for Change: AN EFFICACY STUDY OF ONLINE MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED WITH BUILDING CIVIC PROTEST MOVEMENTS An study TU performed for the Ukrainian foundation for democracy ‘People First’ covering the use of public relations and social networks in the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’. Open publication – Free publishing – More theutilitarian PDF available [...]

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Orwell’s classic essay is an excellent resource for anyone involved with communication or political thought. Classic in status only, it remains unwaveringly relevant in the modern paradigm where online communication has accelerated the distributive and propagative power of written rhetoric.   For more on the history of the essay and its writer, wikipedia is a great place to start: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language   Click the [...]

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