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Everybody should read or reread that book as soon as possible.
This is not an authentic Orwell quote. It is fabricated. Fake.
His book applies currently, nonetheless.
Nineteen Eighty-Four stands on its own.
As Mr. Orwell’s biographer, Dorian Lynskey, observes
“Orwell never wrote those words, nor do they sound like something he would have written. For one thing, “the media” did not enter common usage until after his death in 1950, and this stickler for correct prose would never have used the singular. For another, he had too much faith in ordinary people to portray them as gullible puppets. A report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee later discerned that the phony quotation had been disseminated by the Internet Research Agency, Russia’s most prolific troll farm. People will believe what a Twitter meme tells them they believe.”
“People will believe what a Twitter meme tells them they believe.”
Dorian Lynskey
People will believe what suits their reality.
and
Reality is a beech.
PS apologies both poorly quoted on my part.
Knowledge isn’t free. You have to pay attention.
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Follow your bliss”
Joseph Campbell
I know I have a damned compass around here somewhere.
I may look calm on the outside, but on the inside I have slapped you 3 times already. -Anon
“From such crooked timber as humankind is made of, nothing entirely straight can be made.”
Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Aim” (1784)
“Happiness equals reality minus expectations”
Tom Magliozzi (“Click” of “Click and Clack, The Tappet Brothers”)
The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.
— Bobby Jones
Car Talk!
I miss those guys.
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
— Malcolm X
Oh boy–Here it comes…
“If the words ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.” ~ Terence McKenna
The political parties are a lot like professional wrestlers: they duke it out on stage but they’re all being paid by the same corporations. - unknown