In a time of universal deceit,

El_Kabong

speaking the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

even flow?

I have found that speaking the truth hurts so many people on so many levels. And I fucking love it!!

farfromglorified

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell

El_Kabong

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell

farfromglorified

"It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard. Startled, the animals stopped in their tracks. It was Clover's voice. She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard. Then they saw what Clover had seen.

It was a pig walking on his hind legs.

Yes, it was Squealer. A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard. And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. Some did it better than others, one or two were even a trifle unsteady and looked as though they would have liked the support of a stick, but every one of them made his way right round the yard successfully. And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.

He carried a whip in his trotter." - George Orwell

Blanche

El_Kabong wrote:

speaking the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

The problem is... who's listening?
Or put differently... who will let us listen?

humanlight

1984
My Favorite Book Ever!!

farfromglorified

Blanche wrote:

Or put differently... who will let us listen?

Or put differently....who's stopping you?

Commy

farfromglorified wrote:

"It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard. Startled, the animals stopped in their tracks. It was Clover's voice. She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard. Then they saw what Clover had seen.

It was a pig walking on his hind legs.

Yes, it was Squealer. A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard. And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. Some did it better than others, one or two were even a trifle unsteady and looked as though they would have liked the support of a stick, but every one of them made his way right round the yard successfully. And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.

He carried a whip in his trotter." - George Orwell

Not sure if you've read this...

http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html

Blanche

farfromglorified wrote:

Or put differently....who's stopping you?

I was thinking about censorship and how pervasive it still might be in some parts of society.

farfromglorified

Blanche wrote:

I was thinking about censorship and how pervasive it still might be in some parts of society.

Certainly.

farfromglorified

Commy wrote:

Not sure if you've read this...

http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html

Thanks, I'd never read that intro before. Of particular value today:

"In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves."

"The British press is extremely centralized, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question."

"The servility with which the greater part of the English intelligentsia have swallowed and repeated Russian propaganda from 1941 onwards would be quite astounding if it were not that they have behaved similarly on several earlier occasions. On one controversial issue after another the Russian viewpoint has been accepted without examination and then publicized with complete disregard to historical truth or intellectual decency."

"Any large organization will look after its own interests as best it can, and overt propaganda is not a thing to object to. One would no more expect the Daily Worker to publicize unfavourable facts about the USSR than one would expect the Catholic Herald to denounce the Pope. But then every thinking person knows the Daily Worker and the Catholic Herald for what they are. What is disquieting is that where the USSR and its policies are concerned one cannot expect intelligent criticism or even, in many cases, plain honesty from Liberal writers and journalists who are under no direct pressure to falsify their opinions."

"These people don't see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you."

rarghrargh-brownstar

El_Kabong wrote:

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell

noooooooice!!!

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

rarghrargh-brownstar

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."