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From Chernobyl (TV series): "When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell
by laydn 7y ago
From Chernobyl (TV series):
"When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
- davidvaughan 7y agoFrom Carlyle's French Revolution: "No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer, No effects. Pity only that it often had so long a circulation: that the original forger were so seldom he who bore the final smart of it! Lies, and the burden of evil they bring, are passed on; shifted from back to back, and from rank to rank; and so land ultimately on the dumb lowest rank, who with spade and mattock, with sore heart and empty wallet, daily come in contact with reality, and can pass the cheat no further".
- arethuza 7y agoI guess there are people who really believe that reality is malleable and if you say something often enough it becomes "true", as O'Brien explains in 1984: "I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth."
- clauderoux 7y agoWe do not talk about reality anymore. This is so 20th century stuff... We talk about alternate facts...
- the_af 7y agoIn an unsurprising twist, the Chernobyl TV series had enough distortions and "artistic licenses" for the sake of creating a compelling drama for audiences, that indeed it seemed "the truth offended them".