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Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda (www.eff.org)
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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date

The record was corrected?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago

Stop what you're doing and read 1984 now.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week 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.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.