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war=peace
freedom=slavery
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To go to another dystopian author: it feels like we’re approaching something like the end of Fahrenheit 451. Maybe not a group of people forced to memorize texts, but having to preserve some level of literature and discussion outside of a culture openly hostile to it. /Fin
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the first lines of the illiad are a -warning- that masculine heroes are tantrum throwing 100-meter freestyle whimpering hissyfit all time champions who will get a -lot- of people killed and not give a shit.
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That's a lot of fallacies. And, of course, they're used to prevent people (journalists and judges and all of us) from holding them accountable.