Friday, February 17, 2017

1984 in 2017

Three score and three years later than predicted Orwell's newspeak is descending upon us

"By 2050, earlier, probably – all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron – they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be.

Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like ‘freedom is slavery’ when the concept of freedom has been abolished?”

The Party, in controlling and manipulating language, seeks to ultimately make thinking innately pure – void of rebellious concepts.”

The latest Commander and Chief of newspeak” “ I see stories of Chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine.”

This presidency as he wishes it to be: “an Electoral College victory so massive it was historic”

The Chief's hand puppet, when defending front man for the new language said that “Spicer had provided “alternative facts,” as opposed to just plain facts.”


Paul Hunter paulhunter4577@gmail.com

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