09-12-2020, 03:58 AM
Beware social contradictions. Beware the social order that creates mass suffering yet demands that people act as if they couldn't be happier. Beware the economic system that glorifies material indulgence yet imposes severe poverty to achieve that indulgence. Beware of the brotherhood that depends upon hatred. Beware of Newspeak. Beware the self-styled populist who gives the shaft to multitudes. Beware official hypocrisy.
Contradictions do not resolve themselves on their own. The American Civil War was inevitable in a society that officially praised freedom yet kept people in hereditary bondage.
Contradictions do not resolve themselves on their own. The American Civil War was inevitable in a society that officially praised freedom yet kept people in hereditary bondage.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.