George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not merely a literary masterpiece; it is a prophetic manual for understanding the insidious ways power asserts itself through the manipulation of language.
Essential advice to keep. Continue learning beyond skims and screens and sound bites. Thinking earlier about Aldous Huxley and the drug “soma”… perhaps we could call our condition of addiction “Cellsoma”?
I think we can thank the postmodernist writers who purposely made language so convoluted that no one could understand it. Now language has become so infested with shortened expressions and initials that no one can understand it. So just lol.
When I first read "1984" in high school back in 1978, I had a co-worker, an elderly man who was born deaf. Reading Orwell, I wondered to myself, in what language did old Mr Grounds think in? What did thoughts in his head 'sound' like?
By Y2K, the decline of language among the young was all like, uhmm, ya know, like totally....
....remember, Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read. 😑📲 The principles of INGSOC, when fully implemented, won't even need a Ministry of Truth. 📰✂️🚫📚😵💫
Orwell's Dystopia and the Genesis of Newspeak vs. The Invisible Chains of Contemporary Discourse are not Thesis and Antithesis. The latter is the evolutionary next step of the former. Example of true Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis would be Capitalism×Socialism=Communism.
Essential advice to keep. Continue learning beyond skims and screens and sound bites. Thinking earlier about Aldous Huxley and the drug “soma”… perhaps we could call our condition of addiction “Cellsoma”?
Also, thank you for including some thoughtful strategic solutions to the problem at hand....
I think we can thank the postmodernist writers who purposely made language so convoluted that no one could understand it. Now language has become so infested with shortened expressions and initials that no one can understand it. So just lol.
When I first read "1984" in high school back in 1978, I had a co-worker, an elderly man who was born deaf. Reading Orwell, I wondered to myself, in what language did old Mr Grounds think in? What did thoughts in his head 'sound' like?
By Y2K, the decline of language among the young was all like, uhmm, ya know, like totally....
....remember, Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read. 😑📲 The principles of INGSOC, when fully implemented, won't even need a Ministry of Truth. 📰✂️🚫📚😵💫
Absolutely loved this thanks. Language is so powerful. We create our lives with our thoughts. BELIEF-THOUGHT-EMOTION-ACTION/REACTION
Orwell's Dystopia and the Genesis of Newspeak vs. The Invisible Chains of Contemporary Discourse are not Thesis and Antithesis. The latter is the evolutionary next step of the former. Example of true Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis would be Capitalism×Socialism=Communism.