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A black and white photo of #GeorgeOrwell giving an interview to the #BBC with an old-fashioned microphone: Caption: "The further a society drifts from the truth the more the will hate those that speak it"

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A black and white photo of #GeorgeOrwell giving an interview to the #BBC with an old-fashioned microphone: Caption: "The further a society drifts from the truth the more the will hate those that speak it"
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 00:41:07 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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@JamesGleick
The answers are actually quite easy:
1) fascist strategy of the #Alignment of society ("#GleichschaltungDerGesellschaft")
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/biopolitics-of-education-in-the-third-reichs-special-schools-and-elite-schools/E187EFBA9D9B8E71293A8741BE4BCCE5
2) People that hold the key to knowledge are dangerous to an elite's power based on imaginery solutions.
-》 #Orwell's #1984
"Who controls the past controls the future"
-》 #bookburnings in #Fahrenheit451

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