Isa-Lee Wolf
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One part of 1984 I didn't think about as much while reading is the mental fatigue of trying to keep the truth and facts straight in the face of such pressure manipulate them.

It was a core element of the book and yet reading it isn't the same as living it.
06:10 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Cheryl Colan
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
Absolutely exhausting. I’ve been tired since the whole birther thing and it’s just gotten worse every year since.
10:27 AM - Mar 23, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Cheryl Colan.
It's true. Lie upon lie upon lie.
10:30 AM - Mar 23, 2024
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Carmelle Adam
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
I read that book while I was living in Moscow in the Soviet era of 1985. And those Lenine huge murals overlooking our apartment window were so disturbing because it was too close to fiction. For me what struck me, it is the will to foster altered facts. Lifting the burden of thinking for ourselves.
10:36 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Carmelle Adam.
The book was based on russia, so you weren't wrong.
10:37 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Richard
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
Yeah I need to reread that. The mental fatigue is alarming.
06:21 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Richard.
It hit me today, between this inexplicable subterfuge around Kate and the Moscow theater attack, knowing I'd heard that before.

And then the endless cesspool around trump where facts surface and vanish in to the muck. Really exhausting.
06:24 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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PS Annie
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In response to Richard.
I came here to say this. I read it a couple of times, but the last time was more than 30 years ago. Hyper-relevant these days.
10:29 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Nefarious Newt
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
I should reread it. I haven't touched it since high school.
06:15 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Nefarious Newt.
It's relevance is frightening, though it was written about russia and russia has been driving it.

Same techniques for 80 years.
06:19 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Blanche Davidian
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
I think the confusion was the driving message of the book. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH OCEANIA
06:11 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Blanche Davidian.
It absolutely was, and the toll it took on the protagonist.

And yet it's taken all of these years of constant lies and manufactured stories, especially around trump, the normalizing and the minimizing and the memory hole to realize how taxing it all is in reality.
06:14 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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