RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116977188940191449
Destroying trust in our elections isn't enough for them. They want to destroy our faith in history and our own memory.
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@mattblaze "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"--1984
@virtualbri If Orwell were alive today they'd tell him 1984 is too on the nose.
@mattblaze @virtualbri didn't they tell him that when he wanted to name it "1948”?
“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
Going after museums has its own history. The Nazis famously attacked "degenerate art" (modernism, especially that from Jewish artists), showcasing denounced work in special museum exhibits.
Fortunately, it backfired; they ended up unwittingly curating some of the most important art of the 20th century, inspiring a future generation of equally "degenerate" artists.
Aside: The effect of the "degenerate art" exhibits was a plot point explored in the 2018 film Never Look Away, which is (approximately) based on the life of the artist Gerhard Richter.
