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This book is hitting so far
“Was it not a sign that this was not the natural order of things? … Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?”
— Jan 24, 2026 12:26PM
“Was it not a sign that this was not the natural order of things? … Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?”
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William Ross
is on page 104 of 298
Orwell was really in his bag
“And when memory failed and written records were falsified - the claim of the Party … had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
Makes me think about how certain adjustments to documented history, in museum exhibits or school curriculum etc, have scary implications
— Jan 25, 2026 07:57PM
“And when memory failed and written records were falsified - the claim of the Party … had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
Makes me think about how certain adjustments to documented history, in museum exhibits or school curriculum etc, have scary implications
