"In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as is. In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing them and to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. Ultimately it is by these means that the Party has been able - and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years - to arrest the course of history."
--from 1984 by George Orwell
Agence France Presse: Politicians Must Not Escape Blame Over Iraq Intel Errors - British Press
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