Don’t be like a teenage me and get bored and speed through the parts about language… It may seem dry, but it turns out those were some of his most accurate predictions
I read it a few times but I realized there was more to get from it cause I sort of sped read through some (dry) parts the first time. This was back in the mid 2000s when there was less relevant information for us in North America at the time. Nowadays it needs to be brought in for any decent curriculum, though I don’t think the fascists would approve that.
Course in the US there’s a lot less demanding of education for reasons like this book, you understand what can lead to our current situation and see how harmful it is. Heaven forbid the common folk understand propaganda like they show. Any truly great society would relish in their citizens being well educated and informed of such things to make better progress going forward.
✅ War is peace
☑️ Freedom is slavery
✅ Ignorance is strength
Francis Bacon?
George Orwell.
I was subverting an ancient reddit meme where a redditor remembered:
‘Knowledge is Power’ ‘France is Bacon’ ,
Where the former quote is by Francis Bacon.
But I do appreciate your correctness <3
Goddamit—
Currently reading it. Pretty good so far.
Don’t be like a teenage me and get bored and speed through the parts about language… It may seem dry, but it turns out those were some of his most accurate predictions
I read it a few times but I realized there was more to get from it cause I sort of sped read through some (dry) parts the first time. This was back in the mid 2000s when there was less relevant information for us in North America at the time. Nowadays it needs to be brought in for any decent curriculum, though I don’t think the fascists would approve that.
Course in the US there’s a lot less demanding of education for reasons like this book, you understand what can lead to our current situation and see how harmful it is. Heaven forbid the common folk understand propaganda like they show. Any truly great society would relish in their citizens being well educated and informed of such things to make better progress going forward.
Cool, I won’t, thanks for the heads up!
In the very beginning there’s a scene where people are watching a war film that seemed eerily reminiscent of the attacks on boats in Venezuela.