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by krapp 977 days ago
Referencing 1984, Brave New World and that quote about freedom of speech that Voltaire never actually said make up the holy trinity of pseudo-intellectual posturing on the internet.
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Yeah it was Voltaire's biographer who was describing what she thought was Voltaire's thinking at the time. Still a good quote though regardless of source.
“1984 was dystopian, and anything I don’t like is dystopian, therefore anything I don’t like is straight out of 1984”