U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office...
  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    1 day ago

    I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

    This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

    • 1984
      • lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish
        14·
        1 day ago

        Yes, it was corrected to what the party wanted it to have been. It really is a good book, you should give it at least a once over.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        24 hours ago

        You should actually read the book, or at least that part of the chapter.

        Edit: you can read the context, and the entirety of the book, for free here or at Project Gutenberg.