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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 17:12:18 GMT -5
It's certainly of a feather. Erase and rewrite history we don't like. Down the memory hole with it! We have always been at war with Eastasia! Oh my God, you're right! If we take down those statues of Robert E. Lee, there's no way we'll ever be able to remember him. No museums, no history books, no photos, no Ken Burns' "Civil War," no nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Jeez.... Orwell knew what he was talking about. Argue with him. Me? I don't think the statues in the museums will survive much longer than the statues the parks. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.”
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Post by jdd2 on Aug 23, 2017 20:18:05 GMT -5
When they take aways all the statues, only the criminals will have statues. This one is kinda cool:
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Post by james on Aug 23, 2017 20:39:17 GMT -5
I'll refrain from writing an essay but I will warn that cherry-picking Orwell quotes is a mug's game.
EG - "One has got to be actively a Socialist, not merely sympathetic to Socialism, or one plays into the hands of our always-active enemies."
The quote in my signature below is is one that I find to be a fairly uncontroversial one. YMMV.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 23:36:55 GMT -5
Oh my God, you're right! If we take down those statues of Robert E. Lee, there's no way we'll ever be able to remember him. No museums, no history books, no photos, no Ken Burns' "Civil War," no nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Jeez.... Orwell knew what he was talking about. Argue with him. Me? I don't think the statues in the museums will survive much longer than the statues the parks. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.” Orwell never met the Internet.
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