by John Galt » Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:47 am
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
you know, Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship. it's about what is actually happening. it's the devolution of facts to factoids and worse, it's people being turned into morons by TV, by media. it's about everyone agreeing to burn books -- ideas -- that offend one group until nothing is left. it's the people that have done this to themselves, with political correctness replacing the facts of books with the truthiness of tv. with social media this shit just gets kicked up to 11
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.