Before Frankfurt published "On Bullshit", George Orwell wrote abt power's hostile relationship with truth in 1984 http://bit.ly/2rAMLfx
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It's just we associate the term "Orwellian" with being clever and high-tech and bureaucratic, not with dumb thuggish brutality
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But even in 1984 O'Brien points out cleverness is just a concession. Winston's job of editing history is only temporarily necessary
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The eventual goal is to not need to do any of that shit, you can literally have photos of something that happened and ppl go "fake news!"
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That's the purest form of dominance, to force you to deny something that's actually happening to you right now
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The purest Orwellianism is "I'm sorry for falling down the stairs". It's "Stop hitting yourself!"
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Which is why fact checkers going "Your hand is clearly controlling my elbow" are missing the point
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I don't think "Gaslighter-in-Chief" is overblown at all -- I think domestic abuse is a thorny but very apt analogy
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He almost certainly honed these techniques by very literally abusing wives, employees, etc.
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