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friendly_iconoclast

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2. Orwell, in '1984': "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears...
Mon Dec 2, 2019, 04:59 PM
Dec 2019

...It was their final, most essential command.”

Pious frauds and demagogues of all stripes hate and fear critical thinking, as see:

https://time.com/5347737/trump-quote-george-orwell-vfw-speech/


President Trump drew comparisons to George Orwell’s 1984 in an attack on the media during a speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention Tuesday.

In his address to the convention in Kansas City, Trump defended his decision to slap tariffs on the U.S.’s trading partners. As Trump told the crowd that “it’s all working out,” he warned those in the audience against believing what they see in the news.

“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Trump said.
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