You get that this is the exact same thing as the Ayn Rand quote about "A = A" right She said it a lot worse because she's a worse writer but the basic idea is the same There's a lot of overlap between their current fanbases
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Like, here, I'll translate Orwell and Rand without the fake math and the writerly flourishes: "I think I'm obviously right, but all these other people think I'm obviously wrong They must be lying, in order to oppress me" See, it's not a universal truth, it's highly contingent
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SOMETIMES they ARE lying in order to oppress you And sometimes you're just a dumbass Who then becomes an asshole about being a dumbass As Douglas Adams put it, "The universe had not yet taught Tricia the most vital lesson, determining which of these two circumstances applies"
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Cf. Douglas Adams being the first one to tell that viral email forward story about Arthur Dent being absolutely furious about the random guy stealing his biscuits right from in front of him as this alpha male dominance flex only to find his own biscuits were under his newspaper
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This Captain America "planting yourself like a tree by the river of truth" shit Absolutely intolerable horseshit Maybe plant yourself like a tree and don't talk Plant yourself in that comments section and don't follow me to my own page
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Every Internet Man thinks they're Winston Smith and it's even worse than thinking they were Galileo or Socrates Jesus Christ Orwell was lucky he died before he could see it, and it's unlucky for us he died after the book was published
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I've totally changed my mind from when I was a kid I would not get a time machine and bring back nicotine patches to the 1920s to get Orwell to quit smoking I would try to hook him on menthols
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Thinking about it more, if I were doing any kind of time machine thing I think my objective (if we are talking about smaller ascale stuff) would be to get Carl Sagan to just...be content as a normal scientist, stay away from public advocacy/education.
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Neil as in NDT? I would since I think the problems in the whole skeptic/freethought movement long predate NDT and it was likely to go in this direction at a certain point regardless of him.
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Yeah but he's such a vivid example of hurting his own image and his cause so much in the long run by getting Extremely Online
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