we are the dead
okay i decided i do have more to say and i will try not to suck at typing. damn it took me like 30 seconds to type that sentence.
k well i just picked up my mere mortals book out of curiosity because i can't wait to start reading it and i am now reading about akhenaton/amenhotep who was nefertiti's husband. now, nefertiti i know something about but i had never heard of this guy. he was a very strange pharoah with something called frohlich's syndrome. he had a strange growth in his head, a feminine body, and was obese. he was also tutankhamen's father in law. i never knew that they were all related. i mean that totally makes sense, but i didn't know nefertiti, tutankhamen, and smemkhkare were so close, and now this akhenaton. my god i love history.
i have also learned to treasure it even greater lately after reading 1984, where big brother controls every memory and every document ever written, and are ever changing them so that they are never contradicted, thus this ongoing theme (if you will) "who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past"
it's a pretty scary thought...and i am at this part where they are training winston to use doublethink, which is "holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, fervently believing both, and being unaware of their incompatibility" in other words, o'brien holds up four fingers and tells winston he must know that there are five.
my point is, anyway, through this they eliminate all history so there is only present and future. how can you live in a world with no history? it sounds impossible. it's really made me appreciate it more, though. not like we will ever live in a world like that where even your memories don't belong to you, but i am just really glad to even be capable of treasuring something like that. it would kill me to have it taken away.
anyway, more inspiration from this book.
"freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four"
k well i just picked up my mere mortals book out of curiosity because i can't wait to start reading it and i am now reading about akhenaton/amenhotep who was nefertiti's husband. now, nefertiti i know something about but i had never heard of this guy. he was a very strange pharoah with something called frohlich's syndrome. he had a strange growth in his head, a feminine body, and was obese. he was also tutankhamen's father in law. i never knew that they were all related. i mean that totally makes sense, but i didn't know nefertiti, tutankhamen, and smemkhkare were so close, and now this akhenaton. my god i love history.
i have also learned to treasure it even greater lately after reading 1984, where big brother controls every memory and every document ever written, and are ever changing them so that they are never contradicted, thus this ongoing theme (if you will) "who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past"
it's a pretty scary thought...and i am at this part where they are training winston to use doublethink, which is "holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, fervently believing both, and being unaware of their incompatibility" in other words, o'brien holds up four fingers and tells winston he must know that there are five.
my point is, anyway, through this they eliminate all history so there is only present and future. how can you live in a world with no history? it sounds impossible. it's really made me appreciate it more, though. not like we will ever live in a world like that where even your memories don't belong to you, but i am just really glad to even be capable of treasuring something like that. it would kill me to have it taken away.
anyway, more inspiration from this book.
"freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four"