Reminder when using the term "Orwellian" that for Orwell the science-fiction idea of total information control was a secondary thing
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His whole deal was pointing out that when people get pissed off and drunk on team spirit enough, falsifying evidence isn't even necessary
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People are on here RIGHT NOW voluntarily repeating the lies about crowd size and even making up new such lies, just bc they hate liberals
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As a vet of the Spanish Civil War he wrote a lot abt ppl lying about stuff they personally witnessed bc of party-line thinking
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The fascist response to humiliation is the desire to make the humiliation unhappen by any means necessary
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Not even actually trick or persuade people into thinking it didn't happen, just use force to make them SAY it didn't happen
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Plenty of Nazis had personally lived through WWI. They were there, they saw how it went down, it wasn't a secret
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I read his cultural imperialism essays after that. "Shooting an Elephant" gah
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I loved that Justin McKinney told a "Shooting a Deer" story in standup that's essentially the same story
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Wow, thanks for that, i had no idea, and i love standup. Saturday evening sorted! That Jeopardy knowledge is handy. :)
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