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Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations

Another quote from Orwell as we depart Wigan: “This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.” ― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.” -Hannah Arendt  The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) https://t.co/NKgDxLkewR https://t.co/NkjQHyZuEj

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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.” ― Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy https://t.co/ObtcvFQHqW https://t.co/wOnWnoyq5g

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‘By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike.’ Captain Ahab Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" 1851 https://t.co/VFaAPQjwBB

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(3) "that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?” -George Orwell, 1984

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“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” ― Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

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‘By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike.’ Captain Ahab Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" 1851 https://t.co/VFaAPQjwBB

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“The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool.” ― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954) https://t.co/JAuA2fDYDk https://t.co/9P7lIfi89o

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"Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat." Karl Marx

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Shorter version of "How to Recognize Propaganda" | Cold War Era Educational Film | ca. 1957 “In place of thoughts it has impulses, habits, and emotions.” ― Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda (1928) https://t.co/orbgGZPkLg https://t.co/N8rvQueF39