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“ #Freedom is the freedom 2 say : #TwoPlusTwoMakeFour - all else follows” #GeorgeOrwell #Orwell 1984 #GoodTrouble #SaveDemocracy

“ #Freedom is the freedom 2 say : #TwoPlusTwoMakeFour – all else follows” #GeorgeOrwell #Orwell 1984 #GoodTrouble #SaveDemocracy

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There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque. No one needs to be reminded that our world is now marred by many prison-cultures…. it makes little difference if our wardens are inspired by right- or left-wing ideologies. The gates of the prison are equally impenetrable, surveillance equally rigorous, icon-worship pervasive…. Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.

Neil Postman