QotD

"if we were to take away everything that has been given to us by others we would be left wth nothing - not even our names, our bodies, our language, our ability to eat, walk and talk...how is it, then, that we can live as though we do not owe much to anyone; as though our great ego has done it all, independently, as an act of self-created genius? how is it that we can be so proud of 'our' achievements, as though we existed in some kind of bubble?"

a quote from newspeak in the 21st century by Davids Edwards and Cromwell, stars of the rather excellent medialens.