“The human mind, except when guided by extraordinary genius, cannot surmount the established conclusions amid which it has been reared.”
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you. Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.”
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Boy, those are some good ones. Say what you will about Churchill, warts and all, but the man could offer up piercing insight. This particular observation of his is yet another example of our human conditional boundaries, and limitations, that we must deal with. The hand that has been dealt us. I lump this into that train load of observations of ‘ if only it were not so ‘. Where would we be? Maybe getting past these limitations are our next evolving step. Let’s hope.
The second quote, man don’t we see that playing out right now! Nothing new under the sun.
The third quote, so true as well. The first two quotes are especially frameable. Should be read daily. Thanks for what you do.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
History is written by the victors.
Except, now, we are looking at an endless present.
History is, so to speak, history.
I’d alter only one word…
“The human mind, except when guided by supernatural genius, cannot surmount the established conclusions amid which it has been reared.”