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   Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 06:38:07 JST Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

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   That's not to say things were ever 'good', but just that as things get worse, without history to make comparisons, you don't know how worse they are getting.

   Or that things could be better.

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     Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 06:38:08 JST Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

     I'm re-reading 1984 and it feels very relevant to now. Orwell's #book isn't really #scifi, it's really a book about oppression and propaganda.

     I'll do a blog on it I think. There are things to say about it.

     There are socialists who say Orwell wasn't really a socialist, and they are probably right, but what Orwell gets so very right is how censorship works. By removing references to better things, people have no means to criticise current things. You can't say the current government is bad if you have no proof things were ever better.

     As Orwell says: Who controls the past controls the future.

     #propaganda #censorship

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.