Anyone else watch the movie "Orwell 2+2 = 5" yet?
I read 1984 about 40 years ago, so I had forgotten how prescient so much of it is. Think I'll go back and reread it.
Once you have created a post-truth society where there are no facts, no baseline, no shared reality other than the one that can be made up on the spot to suit those in power, then you can tell big lies just as easily as you can tell little lies. He was writing that book in the late 1940s, but the authoritarian playbook is timeless.



