Speaking to a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) gathering in Kansas City on Tuesday, Trump implored his audience to forget about what they see and read — and instead just listen to him.In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then? ...
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
“Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” Trump said, pointing at reporters as the crowd broke out in boos. “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
Fuck Jeanne Dixon or Nostradamus. As far back as 1949, Orwell's vision of the future was far clearer — and terrifyingly more accurate — than anything those two ever came up with.
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