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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 29, 2019 1:09:31 GMT
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Blackie lives to sleep
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Post by Blackie lives to sleep on Jun 29, 2019 11:21:07 GMT
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/1984-george-orwell/590638/..."Orthodoxy is also enforced by social pressure, nowhere more intensely than on Twitter, where the specter of being shamed or “canceled” produces conformity as much as the prospect of adding to your tribe of followers does. This pressure can be more powerful than a party or state, because it speaks in the name of the people and in the language of moral outrage, against which there is, in a way, no defense. Certain commissars with large followings patrol the precincts of social media and punish thought criminals, but most progressives assent without difficulty to the stifling consensus of the moment and the intolerance it breeds—not out of fear, but because they want to be counted on the side of justice. This willing constriction of intellectual freedom will do lasting damage. It corrupts the ability to think clearly, and it undermines both culture and progress. Good art doesn’t come from wokeness, and social problems starved of debate can’t find real solutions. “Nothing is gained by teaching a parrot a new word,” Orwell wrote in 1946. “What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side.” Not much has changed since the 1940s. The will to power still passes through hatred on the right and virtue on the left."...
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:25:09 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:28:46 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:33:27 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:38:49 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:41:13 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:49:04 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 2:58:24 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 3:05:22 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 3:16:40 GMT
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Post by Source on Jun 30, 2019 12:05:40 GMT
the "green" color thing is starting to get on my nerves (here - there and over there and back here)- just say it.
(I'm not addressing anyone in particular, but I am talking to some who post around )
until then I am going to concentrate on orange, then black then grey then mauve.
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Post by Le Psychologue on Jun 30, 2019 14:39:59 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:02:13 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:03:33 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:10:52 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:13:23 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:21:22 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:23:14 GMT
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Post by ~/Hub\~ on Jun 30, 2019 15:28:44 GMT
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