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Notes on Doublethink and Newspeak
politics, totalitarianism, newspeak, science-fiction, dystopia, doublethink
The New Totalitarians
communism, sweden, socialism, 1984, totalitarianism, scandinavia, brave new world, orwell, huxley, book
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...
Some notes and highlights from the book.
"Analyzes the political and social climate of early 1970s Sweden, and argues that it resembles a benevolent totalitarian state in the mould of Aldous Huxley's Brave New W...