George Orwell on “the power of ignoring facts which are obvious and unalterable, and which will have to be faced sooner or later.”
“In Front of Your Nose,” originally published 1946:
orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…
“In Front of Your Nose,” originally published 1946:
orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-fou…
“we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”
“Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”
Or in an election.
Or in an election.
