Post-Truthism is nothing new. Following the Truth Reform Act of 1976, it became every citizen's civic duty to attend de-education classes. The state instinctively felt that knowledge and the educated people who wield it destablize governmental plans, especially those that routinely and deliberately disregard verifiable facts.
According to one de-education textbook: "A good or 'Schrödinger' fact is simultaneously true and untrue until such a time that someone in authority tells you which, though they may change their mind or substitute the fact entirely for another piece of information, fabricated or otherwise, that suits their personal or political needs."
It could take many years for a citizen to unlearn everything, particularly because they first had to learn the complex method of how to unlearn. (Also see the How to Burn Books book).
Additionally, because de-education classes were compulsory (and expensive), some people opted instead for lobotomies by backstreet barber-surgeons, who, it was later revealed, received government funding. These unregistered practitioners would lay their patients' heads on the bottom step of a staircase, then release a Slinky attached to a sledgehammer from the top step. If this procedure was unsuccessful, they would force the patients to binge-watch ITV talent shows such as Opportunity Knocks or the BBC's Come Dancing programme.
I want to say that Scarfolk is a pseudonym for the whole of the USA. I am seeing the results of this program first-hand - it worked to perfection.
ReplyDeleteThis actually spread to towns with Labour controlled councils who ran comprehensive schools.Our careers advice teacher was on the run and lived in safe houses. She was perpetually pregnant.
ReplyDeleteMan, it's always ridiculous when people in the past try to predict the future. Facts being redundant by 2010? Ludicrous.
ReplyDeleteThey're off by like, SIX years.
Whats ludicrous, is someone who does not know and understand the past (History) and think they know best. We as adults have spent our whole lives learning...all our choices moving forward are based on our past (history) experiences.
DeleteThis is my country in a poster.
ReplyDeletefuck off, the 1970's was never trendy only real...i'm going to bed with a slight fever, hopefully.
ReplyDeleteOne slight quibble here, Job Centre's arrived in the 1980's, the 1970's was a period of Labour Exchanges and they had probably been the place to go to find a new job/employer since the late 1940's.
ReplyDelete"In the 1970s, 'employment exchanges' (colloquially referred to as 'unemployment exchanges') began to be replaced en masse by re-branded 'Jobcentres'" http://www.metamute.org/community/your-posts/brief-history-jobcentre
DeleteGreat post!
ReplyDeleteIn state side , the unemployment office would just give you a GATBY test then call you "Hardcore unemployable, And give you a WIN button.
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