Thanks for the heads-up, George. Too bad that Poem, Hot and Roy were either out sick when you were 'assigned', or that they decided that CliffsNotes would suffice for the 'heavy lifting' they weren't up to. LOL!

Quote:

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"He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity,

a mass of imbecile enthusiasms--one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party depended.”

- George Orwell

I actually have that quote!! Saved it for cases like this...

I think I first read it on Driftglass.

Here is another; note the date:

"GEORGE ORWELL was a genuinely modest man. But he knew he had a talent for facing unpleasant facts. That doesn't seem at first glance like much of a gift.

But when one looks around the world, one quickly sees how rare it is. Most people nurture the facts that confirm their worldview and ignore or marginalize the ones that don't, unable to achieve enough emotional detachment from their own political passions to see the world as it really is.

Now that the war in Iraq is over, we'll find out how many people around the world are capable of facing unpleasant facts." - David Brooks, April 28, 2003, who made up GOP "facts", and is still unable to see the Dystopian GOP hellscape he helped to create.

Yeah; he actually wrote that shit.

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