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"Ignorance is Strength" (Original Post)
kentuck
May 2018
OP
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
IronLionZion
May 2018
#4
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)1. The time we now live in.
kentuck
(111,079 posts)2. It does seem that way.
The World of 1984.
Towlie
(5,324 posts)3. The Appointment of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator echos Orwell's 1984.
On February 17, 2017, Scott Pruitt was selected Administrator of the EPA by Trump. This was a seemingly controversial move, as Pruitt had spent most of his career countering environmental policy. He did not have previous experience in the field and had received financial support from the fossil fuel industry.
You'll recall that the purpose of the Ministry of Truth was propaganda, the Ministry of Peace was in charge of waging war, the Ministry of Plenty suppressed the economy, and the Ministry of Love was where Winston Smith was tortured. It's fitting that the goal of Trump's Environmental Protection Agency should be destroying the environment.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)5. Purpose of Fox "News" is propaganda - has been for 20 years
IronLionZion
(45,429 posts)4. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human facefor ever.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.