A Couple of Quotes
Skimming through some old notes today, I came across a quote that my friend Andrew Cursham gave me last time I was down at our College in Cardiff. It is from Dresden James and is so relevant to the times we live in:
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Ironically, it reminded me of one I had read some years ago, from George Orwell:
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men