So powerful is their demonic imagination …
Apropos this specific remark, have you read or listened to anything by the Frenchman Hervé Ryssen, who has just been jailed for blaspheming the holy h0Ɩ0h0αx?
* In a video I watched several days ago, he repeated an interesting idea, one I've never before heard anyone suggest, that imagination and memory are in effect a zero-sum pair. That is to say, someone with a lot of the former will have little of the latter, and vice versa.
Ryssen applied this notion to explain the Jєωs' success as fabulists, whether as screenwriters in Hollywood or as novelists, and what he called their demonstrated inability to write honest history. They seem to have, he said, no accurate memory of the past; they simply reimagine it at will to suit their own needs and purposes of the moment. Cf. Orwell's Ministry of Truth.
This is a concept with quite a bit of appeal, and so I expect to give it some thought.
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*As it happens, Ryssen actually did nothing of the sort. Instead, he simply quoted a Jєω who was asking a hypothetical question. (How powerless is that!) Needless to say, the Jєω he quoted wasn't tried for hate speech.