Gerorge Orwell: "[W]e are all capable of believing things we know to be untrue..."

[Dennis Donovan]

Asha Rangappa
"[W]e are all capable of believing things we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield." -- George Orwell, 1946
8:38 AM · Oct 11, 2024

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[chicoescuela]

1. Orwell was brilliant

Probably too brilliant for my simple mind though

[BootinUp]

2. hard to argue with. nt

[Prairie_Seagull]

3. Lets hope that last sentance

doesn't come to fruition this time.

It has no empathy and it will not learn.

[RAB910]

4. I am sorry, but I have to disagree. I have spent years and years, honing my critical thinking and intellectual honest

skills. I have reached a point where it's nearly impossible to fool me and on the rare occasions I am fooled, I quickly acknowledge and correct.

Facts and reality is too important to be taken lightly