Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Hill"
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Yeah I hated my high school teachers who made me study Orwell. We did both Animal Farm and 1984. It was difficult and borderline a cruel thing to do to teenagers. Then Trump came along and justified it.
Here's some more quotes I have collected in recent months. Enjoy
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
And few more:
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov
“Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020.
And a classic I recently re-discovered.
“Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA
From the TV Show MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980.
And few more:
"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent." ― Isaac Asimov
“Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” ― Rod Sterling in his introduction to the Twilight episode “The Obsolete Man” originally aired on June 2, 1961 on CBS.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think it would be very, very, I think we’d have a very, very solid, we would continue what we’re doing, we’d solidify what we’ve done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done” ― Donald Trump answering the NY Times on his 2nd term agenda. August 2020.
And a classic I recently re-discovered.
“Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don’t know what it is. I keep myself in a state of utter confusion.” ― Colonel Flagg of the CIA
From the TV Show MASH sometime in the 1970s.
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@alanpaulsen6174 You'll love this one then, it was said 2 years before Trump was even born and at a time when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were all in power. Look at what it says about method and patriots. Try not to fall off your chair.
Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
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Its the saddest part of Western Society the loss of our public information system. Thomas Jefferson famously hated journalists and newspapers but also recognized how important they are to a fair and free society. I'm Australian and even I know about that.
Here's 3 that are incredibly relevant Jefferson quotes to todays issues. On the first one you can easily swap out the words "reads nothing but newspapers" for "watches nothing but opinion TV." That applies to ALL of them, FOX, MSNBC, CNN,....etc. As for the second note what he says about being capable of reading which implies being educated enough to have some discernment. The 3rd is important, because physically pounding FOX, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT or any of the other opinion mutts isn't a solution even though many of them deserve an ass kicking.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."
"I am… for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents."
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