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would you still be my friend?
lizzzadies ;)
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cheeese with wine
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peter pan syndrome
"It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions. Truth is proven by the consensus of millions; to the slogan "how can millions be wrong?" is added and "how can a minority of one be right". Orwell shows quite clearly that is a system in which the concept of truth as an objective judgement concerning reality is abolished; anyone who is a minority of one must be convince that he is insane.
Thus, For instance, if he has surrendered his independecne and his integrity completely, if he experiences himself as a thing which belongs either to the state, the party, or the corporation, then two plus two is five, or "Slavery is Freedom", and he feels free because there is no longer any awareness of the discrepancy between truth and falsehood.
Orwell, is simply implying that the new form of managerial industrialism, in which man builds machines which act like men and develops men who act like machines, is conducive to an era of dehumanization and complete alienation, in which men are transformed into things and become appendices to the process of production and consumption. The danger with which all men are confronted today, the danger of a society of automatons who will have lost every trace of individuality, of love, of critical thought, and yet who will not even be aware."
"Human thought races around the jungle in a frantic effort to find a way out.
Spiritual awareness stands quietly on a hilltop overlooking the jungle, from
which it clearly sees the way out."
ubelog
Sleepless Night
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." - Charles Bukowski
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies.You must learn to live alone in silence.
--William S. Burroughs
would you still be my friend?
lizzzadies ;)
"I crucified my hate and held the world within my
hand." -Yes
happy
cheeese with wine
cheers
peter pan syndrome
mooo ah ah ah ;)
"It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions. Truth is proven by the consensus of millions; to the slogan "how can millions be wrong?" is added and "how can a minority of one be right". Orwell shows quite clearly that is a system in which the concept of truth as an objective judgement concerning reality is abolished; anyone who is a minority of one must be convince that he is insane.
Thus, For instance, if he has surrendered his independecne and his integrity completely, if he experiences himself as a thing which belongs either to the state, the party, or the corporation, then two plus two is five, or "Slavery is Freedom", and he feels free because there is no longer any awareness of the discrepancy between truth and falsehood.
Orwell, is simply implying that the new form of managerial industrialism, in which man builds machines which act like men and develops men who act like machines, is conducive to an era of dehumanization and complete alienation, in which men are transformed into things and become appendices to the process of production and consumption. The danger with which all men are confronted today, the danger of a society of automatons who will have lost every trace of individuality, of love, of critical thought, and yet who will not even be aware."
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oh no he diiiiiiiiiii'ent!
yes i did unearth that memory, but i made it sound pretty because we were smelly, hungover and really annoying...
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