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leveymg

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20. Didn't Orwell say, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."

Reply to villager (Reply #15)

Tue Aug 6, 2013, 07:00 PM

Aug 2013

You're right, I wouldn't even call them intellectuals. Many of the self-styled "sophisticates" are so absurd that they believe they are capable of manipulating the rest of us into believing black is white, which is another Orwell principle. They are silly people, which is a Monty Python principle.

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." - George Orwell

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Reading today's posts, it appears we've lost our fear of The Bomb.... [View all] Junkdrawer Aug 2013 OP

just need a background check, then gtg. PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #1

It wasn't even the biggest weapon of war in WWII (napalm was) Recursion Aug 2013 #2

Aren't the nukes we have today much more powerful? quinnox Aug 2013 #6

Right, that's what I said Recursion Aug 2013 #11

"I don't see why people insist on claiming it's existentially different from other weapons. Dead is quinnox Aug 2013 #14

More people died... iandhr Aug 2013 #3

Not me Isoldeblue Aug 2013 #4

I don't get that at all dbackjon Aug 2013 #5

Speaking for myself Dreamer Tatum Aug 2013 #7

And most of us have watched Dr. Strangelove. iandhr Aug 2013 #8

No, we are talking about the end of WWII... Deep13 Aug 2013 #9

No, as a child during the time after the war, RebelOne Aug 2013 #10

Already been bombed. Didn't feel a thing for thirty years. Downwinder Aug 2013 #13

1945 was not 1962. roamer65 Aug 2013 #12

Well, listen, people are rushing to explain why they no longer need the 4th Amendment, too villager Aug 2013 #15

Didn't Orwell say, “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." leveymg Aug 2013 #20

I admire your ability to strip all context from the discussion. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #16

Brutality, military insanity, and bland acceptance of monsterous... 99Forever Aug 2013 #17

Yes. LWolf Aug 2013 #18

"You mean there was a time when White People were bombed, too." Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #21

Compared to the bomb of even just ten years later, it was NuclearDem Aug 2013 #19