"...the government has successfully subjugated the citizens of Oceania through the pure manipulation of information. They distort the media and invent enemies to bind people together, they edit history and all manner of records to retroactively "fix" the past, and they invent Newspeak, a new language that limits expression and therefore what thoughts people can conceive of..."
That pretty well describes all of our governments since the early 1960s, doesn't it?
"...the government has successfully subjugated the citizens of Oceania through the pure manipulation of information. They distort the media and invent enemies to bind people together, they edit history and all manner of records to retroactively "fix" the past, and they invent Newspeak, a new language that limits expression and therefore what thoughts people can conceive of..."
ReplyDeleteThat pretty well describes all of our governments since the early 1960s, doesn't it?
Sadly, yes!
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