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I grew up in #Canada, but it just didn't work out. I've been in the #Netherlands since 2018, and sometime in 2026, we plan to apply for citizenship.
Maybe we know each other from #LiveJournal some #Vancouver or #Toronto events. I've done #Music #Journalism, #Photography and #FineArts and accidentally "fell into" #IT, and then further into Financial IT.
#HorrorFilms #77Punk #LinuxGeneralist
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism." ― Neil Postman, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'
Neil was reacting to television. PRE-CABLE television.
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad, 2023
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.
Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
- Elie Wiesel
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/acceptance-speech/
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥"For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness. If, for example, Eurasia or Eastasia (whichever it may be) is the enemy today, then that country must always have been the enemy. And if the facts say otherwise, then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten."
George Orwell, 1984
I think more people need to read this book (again). It's more than the short phrases you have heard. Much more.
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism." ― Neil Postman, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'
Neil was reacting to television. PRE-CABLE television.
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -- Omar El Akkad, 2023
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.
Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
- Elie Wiesel
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/acceptance-speech/
xinit ☕ / 🗑🔥"For to change one's mind, or even one's policy, is a confession of weakness. If, for example, Eurasia or Eastasia (whichever it may be) is the enemy today, then that country must always have been the enemy. And if the facts say otherwise, then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously rewritten."
George Orwell, 1984
I think more people need to read this book (again). It's more than the short phrases you have heard. Much more.