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Revised to fix translation errors, rather than revised for the current political climate. I'd have preferred the latter.
by delinka 10y ago
Revised to fix translation errors, rather than revised for the current political climate. I'd have preferred the latter.
- falcolas 10y agoWhat has really changed, though? > 1. The Society surrounding us is clogged with conservancy, pulling everything and everybody to itself, while it sinks slowly into the quicksand of time. > 3. The System must impose its truth upon us so that it can rule. The government needs us to follow it blindly. For this reason, we live in an informational eclipse. When people can only acquire information from the government, they cannot distinguish right from the wrong. So the lie becomes a truth – truth, fundamental to everything else. Thus, leaders control with lies and ordinary people have no notion of what is true and follow the government blindly, trusting it. > 12. Those who control the Net, control the information. These seem as relevant today as they were yesterday. And it's quite likely they will still be relevant tomorrow; human nature is slow to change.
- SideburnsOfDoom 10y ago> When people can only acquire information from the government, they cannot distinguish right from the wrong. So the lie becomes a truth Is that really as relevant today as it was yesterday? It seems to me now far more complex and entangled than the monolithic "resist the government system" set out: In the US, rather than the government controlling the truth, a certain clique of fringe peddlers of a distorted narrative - the likes of Breitbart and Infowars, have done so well as to attempt a hostile takeover of government, and so far are succeeding. Is the name "Infowars" not a self-conscious echo of the sentiment that you quote above? But the content is poisoned fruit. In the UK, the Murdoch press drives government policy, not vice versa. And has for a long time.