If you haven’t
read George Orwell’s 1984, or haven’t read it lately, you should check it
out from the library.
I keep
making comparisons of the Trump Republican administration to George Orwell’s 1984
– but the parallel is so startling that it is undeniable.
“Statistics were just as much a
fantasy in their original version. A great
deal of the time you were supposed to make them up out of your head.”
“The essential act of the party is to
use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with
complete honesty. To tell deliberate
lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become
inconvenient …”
And the
warning we should head:
“If all other accepted the lie which
the party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed
into history and became true. Who
controls the past, ran the party slogan, controls the future: Who controls the
present controls the past.”
We should be
afraid. We should be very afraid.
the Ol’Buzzard
My Rare One and I were just eating breakfast an hour ago, listening to the news, and heard this interview with Conway's neologism "Alternative Facts." We were equally appalled. Just add this to Alt-Right and Fake News.
ReplyDeleteI watched it too. What the heck is "alternative facts"? It's called made up facts or what were taught as children-- "lies".
ReplyDelete1984 has been running through my head for some time now. We have the Ministry of Education soon to be the Ministry of Ignorance.
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