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Name:   phil The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   Dumbing Down
Date:   12/7/2016 12:01:44 PM

George Orwell's 1984 explains education, history and "fake news"  he just missed by a few years.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/quotes.html

By weakening the independence and strength of individuals’ minds and forcing them to live in a constant state of propaganda-induced fear, the Party is able to force its subjects to accept anything it decrees, even if it is entirely illogical—for instance,

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/doomed-to-repeat-it

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”     
 
 
 
It is hard to know if you are repeating history if you do not know it, or are taught history inaccuratly.

 

 

 

 

 

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Last ride in to the sunset - au67 - 12/5/2016 4:11:42 PM
     Last ride in to the sunset - wix - 12/5/2016 6:27:47 PM
     Last ride in to the sunset - Buteye - 12/5/2016 7:12:26 PM
          Last ride in to the sunset - Lifer - 12/5/2016 8:48:37 PM
          Last ride in to the sunset - MrHodja - 12/5/2016 9:02:00 PM
               Last ride in to the sunset - Buteye - 12/6/2016 12:14:25 AM
                    Last ride in to the sunset - Lifer - 12/6/2016 5:45:17 AM
                         Last ride in to the sunset - Talullahhound - 12/6/2016 9:15:26 AM
                              Last ride in to the sunset - Buteye - 12/6/2016 11:54:35 AM
                                   Last ride in to the sunset - Talullahhound - 12/6/2016 4:38:23 PM
                                        Last ride in to the sunset - Lifer - 12/6/2016 5:19:12 PM
                                             Last ride in to the sunset - Old Diver - 12/6/2016 9:38:28 PM
                                                  Diver ........ Selma - wix - 12/6/2016 10:02:10 PM
                                                       WIX........ Selma - GoneFishin - 12/6/2016 11:04:43 PM
                                                            WIX........ Selma - Buteye - 12/7/2016 12:16:28 AM
                                                                 WIX........ Selma - GoneFishin - 12/7/2016 1:00:10 AM
                                                                 Dumbing Down - Old Diver - 12/7/2016 11:18:05 AM
                                                                      Dumbing Down - MrHodja - 12/7/2016 12:01:41 PM
                                                                           Dumbing Down - au67 - 12/7/2016 1:32:54 PM
                                                                                Dumbing Down - Talullahhound - 12/7/2016 10:28:15 PM
                                                                           Dumbing Down - wix - 12/7/2016 8:49:00 PM
                                                                      Dumbing Down - phil - 12/7/2016 12:01:44 PM
                                                                      Absolutely intentional - Lifer - 12/7/2016 2:21:23 PM
                                             Last ride in to the sunset - Buteye - 12/7/2016 12:31:40 AM
                                                  Last ride in to the sunset - Talullahhound - 12/7/2016 10:49:58 PM
                                                       Last ride in to the sunset - phil - 12/8/2016 11:59:56 AM
                                                            AEA Teachers Union..... - wix - 12/8/2016 12:33:18 PM
                                                                 AEA Teachers Union..... - phil - 12/8/2016 2:00:24 PM



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