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Totalitarianism, at its essence, is an attempt at “transforming reality into fiction”.
“In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the State.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Oak and the Calf.
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“Kim Jong Dan is naked!” Aaargh, I recoil at this image…he looks bad enough fully clothed.
The Academy of Ideas always nails it. Havel: “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it falsifies everything”. We are seeing this now in Australia/Ozcatraz. I try to live (under covid) according to Solzhenitsyn’s “Live not by lies”.
They may have been “The Plastic People of the Universe” but their resolve was steely. Any anti-covid musicians/bands in Oz now? Van Morrison, come on down!