Five@slrpnk.net to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months agoPragerU’s Propaganda Is Now Being Taught in Schoolsprogressive.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down10
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minus-square667@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·9 months ago“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four
minus-squareqyron@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoI really need to buy that book and read it again. It was one the hardest reads in my teens.
minus-square667@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoThat book, along with Brave New World have shaped me so deeply. I’ve read 1984 periodically and each reading reveals so much more than the last because I have new mental lenses each time. Definitely pick it up again and give it a punt.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four
I really need to buy that book and read it again. It was one the hardest reads in my teens.
That book, along with Brave New World have shaped me so deeply. I’ve read 1984 periodically and each reading reveals so much more than the last because I have new mental lenses each time.
Definitely pick it up again and give it a punt.
Those two should be read as a pair.