The most true quote

[Lullaby]

In my opinion, I believe that the following quotation from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk is so true and apt to today's society:

"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.

And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world."


What other quotes do you think epitomise the world we live in today, perfectly?

[Pryderi Agni]

Two by Mr. Groucho Marx:


I intend to live forever, or die trying.


In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

The second one is universal now, though^_^.

[belarm]

The truest quote I've ever heard is:
"This too shall pass", also rendered as "And this, too, shall pass away."

[kelby_lake]

In my opinion, I believe that the following quotation from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk is so true and apt to today's society:

"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.

And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world."


What a load of rubbish. Did he read Brave New World?

I'd go for:
'The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes'
or
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had."

The second is very true to today's society. We have to make the best with what we've got, and what we can get.

[Pryderi Agni]

What a load of rubbish. Did he read Brave New World?

I'd go for:
'The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes'
or
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had."

The second is very true to today's society. We have to make the best with what we've got, and what we can get.

:lol: Glad to see some people with their optimism intact.

"Asinus asinum fricat" is more like it.

[I, Pseudonymous]

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In my opinion, I believe that the following
quotation from Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk is so true and apt to
today's society:

"Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's
singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's
busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure
you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your
appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.

And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world
always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With
everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the
world."
This quote is awfully reminiscent of the message given by Fahrenheit
451. Orwell outlined pressure as a method of control, but occupation as
a means to complacency is indeed a viable alternative. In the words of
Ray Bradbury, "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just
get people to stop reading them." However, this method of control does
not appear to me to be "so true and apt to today's society". It is
certainly present to some degree, but it does not appear to be a
defining feature. I'd say the following quote is just as defining of
today's society.


"Don't you see that the whole aim of
Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make
thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words with
which to express it."

Speech appears to be dumbing itself down as time wears on. I have heard
too many times people complain of the overuse of "big words". In areas
of the internet language is often broken down into memes, where many
seem compelled to respond with thought-terminating clichés such as
"cool story bro" or "tits or gtfo". Conversations are broken down into
"Sup?" "nm, u?" "nvm." People begin to perceive complete precise
expressions of your thoughts to be unnatural, preferring a memetic
response in its place. There does not appear to be an end goal to this
process, but it is certainly a pressure society is exerting on people
with observable outcomes.

However, are we really being controlled to a substantial degree? Like
begets like, but there is always the opportunity to differ from the
crowd.

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[hoope]

for now i will write these but i will bakc with more special ones :

"The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks" - Helen Keller


" In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. " - Charles Dickens