The goat of truth-tellers
George Orwell warned us about abusers of power in his book 1984. He saw the future of wars, oppression, corruption, propaganda and mass surveillance like a few others. His warnings are more relevant than ever.
Here’s a small selection:
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“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
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“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have truth, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.”
Orwell’s (1984) words were prescient. Huxley (Brave New World) was a school teacher of Orwell’s at Eton College. They both attended elite symposiums in the 1920s and 30s where all of this was discussed in complete seriousness…sort of like early versions of Bilderberger meetings.
