"....we have entered a new era. It was one thing when alternative facts were being peddled by neo-Nazis, creation-museum keepers and the sort of people now able to “prove,” within a day or two of each new school shooting, that the shooting was a hoax.
It is quite another when the president of the United States and his representatives lie without blinking, then admit they are lying and then coin phrases that mock the very concept of truth."
-- Ed Kemmick, Last Best News
"....I am waiting for the crackdown, which, judging from the present pace of events, is not far behind."reichstag-1938-washington-2017
-- Norman Pollack
I’m so tired of being righteous all the time. I’m so sick of being so so so so so so so serious about everything. So screw it. Let’s all be wrong together for a while whilst basking in the sublime absurdity of perfect sovereignty. Welcome to Anarchy 101. Coming soon to a consciousness near you.....
-- Scott Thomas Outlara-break-in-the-action
“Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood and they’re giving -- Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.”
-- Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s counselorThis is not then the Orwellian manipulation of language; it is simply dishonesty, lies and bullshit that is a wider foundational attack on the very nature of Truth itself. Truth matters in an Orwellian view of the world, which is why the powers that be work, through linguistic contortions to limit the ability of that truth to be spoken. Here, truth does not matter at all. The administration is questioning the basis and necessity of Truth in and of itself. Under this view, it does not matter that you are wrong or lying because the alternative (accuracy and honesty) don’t matter anyways. The worldview of this administration is one of a swirling maelstrom of views, some truthful, other untruthful, but where ontological proof is derived from power rather than from the accuracy of claims. Orwell would be horrified, for here is a new formulation of politics where the contents of language no longer matter along with the political content. We stumble blindly forwards into a world that is loutish, thuggish, post-rhetorical, post-truthful and thus post-Orwellian.
pinkThe timing is what’s bothering me. Something is wrong. There’s nothing spontaneous about this demonstration. The timing is, is . . .too perfect.
Look, at least a half a million children die under a terrestrial partition and no-fly zone in Iraq under President Bill Clinton. He oversaw the strafing of Iraq with so much depleted uranium munitions that Iraqi women to this day are giving birth to genetic monsters, babies so hideously misshapen you’d turn your head away in horror and revulsion to go throw up on your knees. Of all this carnage, Secretary of State Madeline Albright infamously said the price was worth it. Where was the groundswell of women’s indignation about that? Nowhere.-- Anthony Tarrant
