Thursday, June 20, 2019

Orwell Explains How Socialists Alter Language to Alter History

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"Orwell wrote that through the alteration of the past, and by portraying the remaining memory of history as evil—or supportive only of the socialist regime—classic texts such as the American Declaration of Independence would be incomprehensible in their original context. 
People would be incapable of understanding them as they were originally intended...
  • Newspeak
And understanding this, Orwell imagined how a socialist regime would deal with such subversive values. 
Orwell’s answer was the idea of a government-altered language and a warped system of values that could alter the way people interpret information...
  • DOUBLETHINK
“This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as DOUBLETHINK,” Orwell wrote..."
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