We listened to 1984 on a recent road trip. Nice to revisit it and sadly very apropos in today’s alternative-fact political climate. One of the best lines:
“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
Listening also to President Trump’s recent comments I am struck by how Orwellian Trump is, not only revising history but trying to dictate what people think; as he responds to a question in this video he says:
We listened to 1984 on a recent road trip. Nice to revisit it and sadly very apropos in today’s alternative-fact political climate. One of the best lines:
“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
Listening also to President Trump’s recent comments I am struck by how Orwellian Trump is, not only revising history but trying to dictate what people think; as he responds to a question in this video he says:
“I don’t doubt it and you don’t doubt it.”
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