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A quotation from Orwell

That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/

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#Assange #Orwell #dictatorship

I just came across this in my feed....

"It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for granted as a natural instinct, equally prevalent in all ages, like the desire for food. Actually it is no more natural, in the sense of being biologically necessary, than drunkenness or gambling. And if it has reached new levels of lunacy in our own age, as I think it has, then the question becomes: What is the special quality in modern life that makes a major human motive out of the impulse to bully others? If we could answer that question — seldom asked, never followed up — there might occasionally be a bit of good news on the front page of your morning paper."

#GeorgeOrwell, 1946.

https://wist.info/orwell-george/85229/

@Remittancegirl @Crystal_Fish_Caves

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@LisaWesterveld/116812588655113871

Precies, die mensen zijn vaak nog nooit van hun leven in #Kenia of #RWanda geweest, dus hoezo "terugsturen"?

@rtlnieuws

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A quotation from George Orwell

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.

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/17246/

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La #Filosofia di 1984 di #Orwell #GeorgeOrwell #Papersplease #Nottonight #Brexit #Ostalgie https://youtu.be/KZi6yzpLsW0?si=BP726nJOmTKKdZCd via @YouTube

So much for rules-based order and 1917 agreement over #Danish #WestIndies https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/americas/what-to-know-us-west-indies-greenland-history-denmark.html My take on new #Orwellian #geopolitical #dystopia here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/01/23/are-we-headed-toward-an-orwellian-geopolitical-dystopia/ #trump #imperialism #denmark #greenland #ukraine #russia #ukrainewar #putin #fionahill #orwell

Dzisiaj 76 rocznica wydania 1984 Orwella. Chyba najsłynniejszym fragmentem powieści były slogany partyjne:

1. Wojna to pokój.
2. Wolność to niewola.
3. Ignorancja to siła.

Zainspirowany powyższym przygotowałem slogany dla Komisji Europejskiej :KEKW:

1. Cyfrowy nadzór dzięki #eidas2 to wolność.
2. Tylne furtki w szyfrowaniu dzięki #ProtectEU to bezpieczeństwo.
3. Kasowanie treści bez procesu sądowego dzieki #DigitalServicesAct to wartości europejskie.

#unia #eu #ue #orwell #wolnosc #internet

Ce soir j'ai le privilège et la joie d'aller voir "L'Art de ne pas Dire", le spectacle de Clément Viktorovitch. Même si je ne l'ai pas encore vu, je sais qu'il va parler le l'époque de poste vérité que l'on traverse, dans laquelle la guerre c'est la paix et l'esclavage c'est la liberté. DU côté d'Annyo le mouton à 5 pattes, j'ai l'impression que ça ne va pas beaucoup mieux.

https:// annyo.logaton.fr

#annyo #orwell #1984 #victorovitch
#bd