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Notes on Doublethink and Newspeak
politics, totalitarianism, newspeak, science-fiction, dystopia, doublethink
A few highlights on NewSpeak and DoubleThink from George Orwell's 1984
‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
To know and not to know, to...