I'm moving toward full panic mode over what's happening all around us. When I was a kid it seems like the only big corruption was in the mafia and large democrat run cities (that's redundant I realize). Since then it has spread to corporations, colleges, school systems, banks, and just about everything else I can think of. With the BBB and reinforced by this email, it's hitting me that were in full "1984" mode, being told to believe things totally opposite of what we clearly see.
Which of these Orwell sayings haven't come to pass?:
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
Minimal effect – most already deduct less than $10K.
Mixed/negative effect – some offset by other factors like indirect tax hikes.
