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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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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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.
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06:14 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Deborah Conway
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In response to Isa-Lee Wolf.
They wore Winston down, he knew that he was right to question what was happening. He was told a few key things: he had to repeat the Party Slogan “ who controls the past controls the future”
“He knew that 2+2=4”. He was told 2+2=5. He had to accept that and repeat it!!!
06:29 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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In response to Deborah Conway.
They did, and it is starting to feel like that's where we are.

I mean news stories about Moscow would have raised the previous attack in years past, but now it's like it never happened.

There are just so many things like that, where we are responsible for knowing what actually happened.
06:32 PM - Mar 22, 2024
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