Seems like in the future there’s going to be two groups with very different ideas of history.
That is true now. The propaganda isn’t to teach something new, it’s to teach something people already believe harder.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four
I really need to buy that book and read it again. It was one the hardest reads in my teens.
That book, along with Brave New World have shaped me so deeply. I’ve read 1984 periodically and each reading reveals so much more than the last because I have new mental lenses each time.
Definitely pick it up again and give it a punt.
Those two should be read as a pair.
- RATM - Orwell
It isn’t the first time propaganda has been taught in our public schools. At all.
Sure, but it is perhaps the most blatant.
But you can see why this is a bit alarming though, right?
This is the first time privately funded, far-right disinformation has been taught in public schools.
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