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  1. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

  2. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

  3. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation @youth

  4. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

  5. A quotation from Orwell

    Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation @youth

  6. Aboriginal cultural heritage site: The kuyang - A giant 300 metre eel arrangement

    "All it is is rocks in a paddock," Mr McMaster (farmer)

    "Adrian McMaster allegedly used an excavator to remove rocks from an ancient stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property, between Ballarat and Dunkeld, in 2021. I was moving the stones so I could get the [weed sprayer] in there," the 65-year-old told Ballarat Magistrates Court."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adr
    #AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

  7. "The Burrup Peninsula,
    in WA’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs."

    "Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area and its proposed expansion could produce billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070 and damage the ancient artefacts."
    >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Murujuga, Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm, José Antonio González Zarandona >>
    pennpress.org/9780812251562/mu
    #FossilFuels #expansion #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #burrup #Murujuga #petroglyphs #RockArt #Heritage #IndigenousPeoples #iconoclasm #ProtectProtest #disrupt

  8. A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

    «
    Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen

    #quote #quotes #quotation #iconoclasm #idolatry #truth #truthseeking

  9. A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

    «
    Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen

    #quote #quotes #quotation #iconoclasm #idolatry #truth #truthseeking

  10. "Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

    What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

    >>
    Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
    theconversation.com/friday-ess
    #TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

  11. nihau on this lovely #wechatwednesday
    rumor has it, that #xijinping and #putin will meet some time soon.

    we got to peek at the gala menu; the main dish is #russian

    behold! before you click that pic, be aware:
    it portrays cannibalism!!! (but if you have seen #degoya​s saturn before; -you are good to go ;P)

    is trolling art/ #iconoclasm #art too? should i use the hashtag #mastoart? ops, too late
    #china #russia #meme #mememe #memes #xi #goya
    on this occasion i also salute all #nafo

  12. introducing the #MASTOBRA

    not only did our r&d department come up with the #mastodong. no, further intense research led to the conclusion that it can conceal about anything with as much #innuendo as imaginably possible.

    wtf is a mastodong?! -> det.social/@mastomememakers/10
    #meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

  13. One of my favorite historical religious events is the #Beeldenstorm aka the #IconoclasticFury.

    After the #printingpress allowed mass distribution of the #Bible in common language, #tracts and religious #polemics became common. In the mid #16thCentury #Protestants rose up against all the pervasive #Catholic #idolatry and church wealth. They stormed churches throughout the #HolyRomanEmpire, tearing down idols.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelde

    #Iconoclasm
    #Histodon