perpetual revolution requires every year to be year zero
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building renamed, every date has been altered. And that process continues day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
Cant have any cultural touchstones that us little people can use to maintain a connection between the past and the present. First it is demonized, then it is erased.
Now and forever forward nobody can talk about Lord of the Rings without bringing modern politics into the discussion. Just like star wars, just like ghostbusters, just like magic the gathering, just like dungeons and dragons, just like videogames, just like sports.
And thanks to search engines and how they work the newer stuff will show up first. By creating the awful new things they poison the well against any young people who might be discovering it in the future.
of course they do
perpetual revolution requires every year to be year zero
Cant have any cultural touchstones that us little people can use to maintain a connection between the past and the present. First it is demonized, then it is erased.
Now and forever forward nobody can talk about Lord of the Rings without bringing modern politics into the discussion. Just like star wars, just like ghostbusters, just like magic the gathering, just like dungeons and dragons, just like videogames, just like sports.
And thanks to search engines and how they work the newer stuff will show up first. By creating the awful new things they poison the well against any young people who might be discovering it in the future.