A team of physicists, including University of Massachusetts assistant professor Tigran Sedrakyan, recently announced in the journal Nature that they have discovered a new phase of matter. Called the "chiral Bose-liquid state," the discovery opens a new path in the age-old effort to understand the nature of the physical world.
““Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“…The real power. The power we have to fight to for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”
These sentences are taken from the classic dystopian novel
1984 authored by George Orwell in 1949. They show the importance of psychological control in establishing a complete hegemony over society. In this article, the focus will be on Chinese perception control. It takes a quick look into the censorship history during the Ming Dynasty and examines today’s constitutional provisions for highly controlled media in China. It asserts that the normalisation of censorship in Chinese society is because of the fear of being oppressed, which has been carried along the centuries of history. Finally, it concludes by showing the situation of current surveillance society and the state’s more than required control over the citizen’s life.