And so, rereading Orwell, one is reminded
of what Orwell got right about this kind of brute authoritarianism—and
that was essentially that it rests on lies told so often, and so
repeatedly, that fighting the lie becomes not simply more dangerous but
more exhausting than repeating it. Orwell saw, to his credit, that the
act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing
perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.
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