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The news media becomes fluent in Newspeak – The Australian
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Part of George Orwell’s genius lay in his insight that manipulation of language was essential to the revolutionary project. If you can command popular compliance with a lexicon that reorders — or even inverts — the widely understood meaning of political terms, you can remake society as much as you can with any law, mandate or act of force. Thought is constrained by the limits of language, and so language becomes a vital tool for placing l…
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