It's a quandary It's why 1984 is a very powerful and evocative novel but as an argument of any kind it's not that great Tailor-made for the "I AM RATIONAL AND YOU ARE BRAINWASHED, WAKE UP SHEEPLE" chuds we now live with every day
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I'm not saying there isn't deep, searing emotional truth to this idea There clearly is It's why we coined a whole term, gaslighting, for it I am saying though that this is more of a painting of a nightmare than a "blueprint of authoritarian rule"
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(Much like Chesterton's nightmare vision of the true anarchists who stand behind real life anarchism and seek to tear everything down for the sake of doing so This is a nightmare of totalitarianism for totalitarianism's sake, when real totalitarians do, in fact, have reasons)
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The more ridiculous the thing you can force people to parrot the more clearly you signal the depth of your power. Hard part in the end is not believing your own lies.
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See also what the survivors of Assad's prison told about their captivity. Their stories are not only disgusting, but told a system of torture that reach the point where they exist not so much to crush dissent but more perversly to allow the sadists in charge to get off.
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