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>In the absence of hard evidence, people trust the sources they trust the most I hate Orwell so much. He points out obvious behaviors in the most pretentious w
by jimbob45 6y ago
>In the absence of hard evidence, people trust the sources they trust the most
I hate Orwell so much. He points out obvious behaviors in the most pretentious way possible.
- toyg 6y agoThere was little to no knowledge of the mechanisms of ideological propaganda on a mass-scale before Orwell's time. 1900-1950 was when the mechanisms of the democratic game were effectively being discovered across Europe. Orwell made them understandable to a wider audience. He's to political ideological movements what Asimov is to robots.
- jacobr1 6y agoThe modern mass-media incarnation of propaganda in modern world, for sure. But ideological-purity regimes are certainly not new to the world stage.
- dang 6y agoThat's not what Orwell is saying. He's saying that people side with their side even in the presence of evidence. Orwell seems to me perhaps the least pretentious of writers. I'm not sure what in that quote could be put any simpler or more clearly.