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The Swallowers of Slogans
Why Modern Activism Looks Exactly Like Orwell Said It Would

The Last Wire

Orwell Was Not Warning the Left or the Right. He Was Warning You.

Most people quote Orwell to score points. Very few actually read him.

One sentence from Orwell cuts through today’s noise like a blade:

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

This essay is not about nostalgia, literature class, or abstract philosophy. It is about power. It is about what happens when truth becomes negotiable, when comfort replaces courage, and when people outsource their thinking to institutions that claim to act in their name.

The piece breaks down how modern systems do not need jackboots or secret police to enforce compliance. They only need repetition, incentives, and the quiet punishment of dissent. If reality itself can be reframed, controlled, or labeled dangerous, then freedom has already been hollowed out.

If you care about free speech, skepticism of authority, or the slow erosion of individual judgment, this is worth your time.

Read the full essay here: 
The Last Wire - The Swallowers of Slogans

Read it before the quote becomes something you are no longer allowed to repeat.

"The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement." - Karl Popper

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Frederic Bastiat

“You can vote Socialism in, but you’re gonna have to shoot your way out of it.” - Me

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Excellent. Emotion gives license to ignore facts and push feelings (no matter if they are NOT justified) to the forefront, and negating those feelings with facts resonates with every hurt, imagined or real, ever experienced by those who use their feelings as the basis for their feelings of authority.
Invalidating those feelings is the greatest sin in their minds, and hence anger is unleashed though their emotional floodgates, often disproportionate to the incident because it is backed by the pressure of every wrong, real or imagined, within the realm of their total personal experience.

Note, the angriest often are unattractive, (sometimes by their own grooming and accessory choices), angry (seem to be a lot of Lesbians) at men in general for past rejection, and even project their anger at the 'cool chicks' for not letting them into their clique.
They have found a 'home' with their fellow socially dissatisfied cadre, and will embrace any excuse to take that anger out on those they perceive as their enemies, to wit: any who resemble in any way those whom they feel have wronged them.
Authority figures who defy their worldview are prime targets.
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How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Excellent. Emotion gives license to ignore facts and push feelings (no matter if they are NOT justified) to the forefront, and negating those feelings with facts resonates with every hurt, imagined or real, ever experienced by those who use their feelings as the basis for their feelings of authority.
Invalidating those feelings is the greatest sin in their minds, and hence anger is unleashed though their emotional floodgates, often disproportionate to the incident because it is backed by the pressure of every wrong, real or imagined, within the realm of their total personal experience.

Note, the angriest often are unattractive, (sometimes by their own grooming and accessory choices), angry (seem to be a lot of Lesbians) at men in general for past rejection, and even project their anger at the 'cool chicks' for not letting them into their clique.
They have found a 'home' with their fellow socially dissatisfied cadre, and will embrace any excuse to take that anger out on those they perceive as their enemies, to wit: any who resemble in any way those whom they feel have wronged them.
Authority figures who defy their worldview are prime targets.

Excellent pos!
"The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement." - Karl Popper

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Frederic Bastiat

“You can vote Socialism in, but you’re gonna have to shoot your way out of it.” - Me

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They are snippy advertising slogans for free propaganda sound bite proliferation amongst the lame stream media.

They are selling a product and using advertising principles to increase public consumption and brand loyalty.

"Tastes Great, Less Filling"
"Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it’s entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." - Alan Simpson, Frontline Video Interview

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They are snippy advertising slogans for free propaganda sound bite proliferation amongst the lame stream media.

They are selling a product and using advertising principles to increase public consumption and brand loyalty.

"Tastes Great, Less Filling"

Absolutely.
"The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement." - Karl Popper

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Frederic Bastiat

“You can vote Socialism in, but you’re gonna have to shoot your way out of it.” - Me