You’ll Find Koch Dollars At the Root Of the Calls for Armed Revolution Against Obama

[patrice]

17. That's from Orwell's 1984. It's a cry of resistance against propaganda and silly fairy tales

about History and stuff like that.

When Winston Smith is brought in for questioning and threatened and then tortured (because Big Brother and his unending war machine are paranoid and sick) for information that WS doesn't have, and the Grand Inquisitor kept punishing WS, for saying 4 fingers, raised on the GI's hand, were 4 fingers and not 5 (or however many the GI said there were, despite the physical fact that the GI was holding up only 4 fingers). It's Orwell's meditation on propaganda and its various cultural mechanisms, such as History. 4 is what we know, but so much about our various systems impels us to pretend otherwise, so a lot of people just say 5 even though they don't know the specific truth of that 5. We're geared for propaganda. Echoes.