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Old 12-17-2018, 03:47 PM
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"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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‘Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.'
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“The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.”
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“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
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“Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
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“We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.”
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“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
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“I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.

We have lost our humanity.”
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“The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”
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Old 12-18-2018, 09:06 AM
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“The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.”
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Guess I need to read "Atlas..."
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How is this High School:



This dude is retarded. and i say that as a moron myself.
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Originally Posted by DNMakinson
Guess I need to read "Atlas..."
None of those quotes is Atlas. But I love reading dystonian novels. One is from another Ayn Rand novel -- it's a really good read: Anthem.
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Ahh, I made an assumption based on Rand authorship of one of the quotes. Thanks Scott.
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Originally Posted by DNMakinson
Guess I need to read "Atlas..."
It's not really a great novel in the same sense of 1984, but it will give you some insight into the minds of the programmers who coded Braineack.


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How is this High School:

https://twitter.com/Rissian9/status/1073844634420277248


This dude is retarded. and i say that as a moron myself.
Serious question: is it retarded to claim that supporting pewdepie is to support Nazism, or is it retarded to refute that claim?

(Or is it retarded to say that the Wall Street Journal is a reputable journalistic entity?)



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Old 12-18-2018, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others' ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.
This is prophetic.
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the former.

I prefer Fountainhead over Atlas, but Atlas is what turnt me. 1984 depressed the **** out of me.

Also, read: The Giver, Fahrenheit 451, Anthem, and Animal Farm to understand my russian programming. I'm actually related to Ray Bradbury.

I started Brave New World, but grew bored of it, I need to finish it.

We is supposed to be a good instruction manual for Stalin.
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
This is prophetic.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gen...=9780547394381
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i never watch this guy, but lol.



I just followed him because this video was good. I'm now an alt-right ****.


forward from it and moved on from it my
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fans don't look at the world with the
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insane lens that everyone is an enemy
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that needs to be publicly destroyed by
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running these articles about me smearing
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my name and calling me white
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supremacists calling me racist
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you are watering down the definition of
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these words by keep calling me all these
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things these words will no longer carry
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the same meaning and in a way you are
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doing these people that are actually
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racist and anti-semitic a favor and I
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don't doubt that there are races an
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anti-semite in the world but you're
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looking at the wrong places
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and people know it you are also hurting
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your own brand and as a news outlet you
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are just losing your credibility because
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people know this isn't true and that's
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probably the number one thing you'd care
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about protecting as a media outlet is
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that what you're saying the check is
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actually true what you're saying is
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actually unbiased but you spell it out
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so clearly that that's not the case

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I lul'd very hard multiple times while watching this:



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