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George Orwell: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable…”

 Quotes  Tagged with: steps to Fascism, warning on liberals use of language, warning on neo-conservative use of language
Dec 012010
 

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Arthur Schopenhauer: “All truth passes through three stages…”

 Quotes  Tagged with: evolution of radical ideas, paradigm shifting
Dec 012010
 

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Paul Saffo: “The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players…”

 Quotes, Tech Notes  Tagged with: prescient thinking, semantics is everything meaningful
Dec 012010
 

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching, and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace. [from It’s the Context, Stupid]

This seems even more important now that when Paul wrote this in the 1990s.

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