Introduction: The Nightmare Blueprint Adam Curtis, in The Power of Nightmares, showed how fear replaced hope as the engine of politics. While Aldous Huxley warned of pleasure-based control, George Orwell’s 1984 captured the darker side of governance: obedience enforced not by distraction, but by fear, force, and surveillance. This is the playbook modern governments return … Continue reading Orwell’s Stick: How Governments Rule Through Fear