Of course I didn't say that, that would require an exerted misreading of what I said. You're good at that. Congrats.
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @kareem_carr
It's totally what you said If that's not what you think you said what did you say
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
"That world [of video games] isn't real." You're on the same page that video games aren't real life, I hope?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @kareem_carr
Yeah they simulate real life Sometimes accurately, sometimes not, but the idea of a world where if you go straight long enough you end up where you were is accurate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
I won't attack you personally as you're fond of doing, but you make arguments either in bad faith or that lack intellectual rigor which requires reasonable interpretation and understanding of others' words. Also, I wonder if you're aware that you're literalizing Orwell?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @kareem_carr
Orwell wrote a whole essay specifically about the fact that it struck him one day that he knew the world was round but only from books, and spent a while trying to think of how he could personally convince himself of this based on his own experience
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It was an interesting piece because it talks about how the world is getting bigger and expertise more specialized and the shibboleths that mark an "educated person" increasingly dependent on faith in institutions I doubt he'd be backing your take (though he could be an asshole)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
You don't seem to know that 2 + 2 = 5 has a specific role in Orwell, and in preceding literature. And I quote, from Orwell writing about Nazi propaganda: "If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs."
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
That actually isn't a quote from 1984... But yes, it's very much in there there too. This is an actual fact: you're literalizing Orwell.
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Have you, in fact, read much of Orwell other than the anti-Hitler/Stalin stuff from the 40s There's a lot of it, it's worth reading
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The one about tea is great.
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