Tuesday, October 26, 2021

 here is more evidence that we've entered orwell's world, and how more clear could it be;


On learning that Twitter sanctioned Rep. Jim Banks for daring to refer to Assistant Secretary of Health R. Levine as a man (and that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also referred, but without sanction, to Dr. Levine as a man) I turned, for insight on this peculiar assault on the concept of objective reality, to a classic novel on the nature of totalitarianism:  1984, by George Orwell.  Here are, I believe, relevant passages from the novel, from a torture scene, with torture applied to Winston Smith by O'Brien.

O'Brien to Winston Smith, undergoing torture: 

“Who controls the present, controls the past...” Signet Classic (paper), p.248

This is what Critical Race Theory is all about.

O'Brien to Winston Smith, undergoing torture, on the nature of reality:

"Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see  something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external.  Reality exists in the human mind,  and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes; only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party."  Ibid, at p. 249

The Party says R. Levine is a woman; therefore, he is a woman.............read more........

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