Angst

Greg - Boomtime, 58 Bureaucracy 3169 @ 04:59 AM

Politicans lie, film at 11:00. In other news, studies suggest that rain is wet.

The horrifying part is how thoroughly and frequently we can be duped.

I've also got to wonder just what side effects we'll see from all the cognitive dissonance in California, where some of the same republicans who wanted Clinton run out on a rail for cheating on his wife now find themselves just as aggressively supporting a guy who's already up against accusations of statutory rape, supporting naziism, and groping everything in sight.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ...
...the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?