#mythmaking — Public Fediverse posts
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The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable part in the Russian civil war, it is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46375/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #divinetruth #history #mythmaking #past #propaganda #reality #revisionism #truebeliever #truth
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The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable part in the Russian civil war, it is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46375/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #divinetruth #history #mythmaking #past #propaganda #reality #revisionism #truebeliever #truth
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The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable part in the Russian civil war, it is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46375/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #divinetruth #history #mythmaking #past #propaganda #reality #revisionism #truebeliever #truth
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The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable part in the Russian civil war, it is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46375/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #divinetruth #history #mythmaking #past #propaganda #reality #revisionism #truebeliever #truth
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The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable part in the Russian civil war, it is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46375/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #divinetruth #history #mythmaking #past #propaganda #reality #revisionism #truebeliever #truth
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Man is certainly mad. He cannot fashion a worm, and he fashions gods by dozens.
[L’homme est bien insensé: Il ne sçauroit forger un ciron, & forge des Dieux à douzaines.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 12 (2.12), “Apology for Raymond Sebond [Apologie de Raimond de Sebonde]” (1573) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #creation #divinepower #ego #gods #hubris #humannature #life #mythmaking #power #religion
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
SAINT, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
"Saint," The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)More info about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/21902…
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Today in History — September 2, 1973
J.R.R. Tolkien passed away.Oh, that the world were like the Shire,
Where right is good and wrong is evil.
Instead, we live in myth—
Where the two are blended
And called real.Thank you, Professor.
#ThisDayInHistory #Tolkien #LOTR #Fantasy #Mythmaking #TheShire
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Yesterday's #Anglistiktag2024 had a lively #linguistics plenary talk by Guyanne Wilson on London Jamaican in the #WindrushGeneration, plus a great panel on fluid identities & #mythmaking in #ScottishFuturities #ScottishLiterature with Wolfgang Funk, Monika Class & Dietmar Böhnke