Posts Tagged ‘George Orwell’

Definition of Redacted Reports

Monday, April 22nd, 2019

 

Did George Orwell talk about redacted reports when he said, “Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them back together again in new shapes of your own choosing”?

(Just wondering.)

Did George Orwell talk about redacted reports when he said, "Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them back together again in new shapes of your own choosing"? www.walled-in-berlin.com

Did George Orwell talk about redacted reports when he said, “Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them back together again in new shapes of your own choosing”? www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic or current events, people, places or food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.

 

Truth isn’t truth? What’s a lie?

Monday, August 20th, 2018

“Truth isn’t truth,” said Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s attorney and former Mayor of New York on Sunday, 19 August 2018, while explaining that he won’t let special counsel Robert Mueller rush Trump into testifying because he doesn’t want investigators to trap the President into a lie.

Really?

Was the novelist George Orwell onto something when he said, “The past was erased; the erasure was forgotten; the lie became the truth”?

Just wondering.

"Truth isn't truth." Does that mean "The past was erased; the erasure was forgotten; the lie became the truth”? www.walled-in-berlin.com

“Truth isn’t truth.” Does that mean “The past was erased; the erasure was forgotten; the lie became the truth”? www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic and current events, people, places and food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.