It was an interesting piece because it talks about how the world is getting bigger and expertise more specialized and the shibboleths that mark an "educated person" increasingly dependent on faith in institutions I doubt he'd be backing your take (though he could be an asshole)
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But in any case, you are the Party in this analogy, you understand You've turned truisms like "2+2=4" into a *slogan*, something you just say without thinking about what it means, and getting mad when challenged to do that thinking That's what Newspeak is
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A chopped down, simplified language to, as you put it, maintain a single common coherent point of view without ambiguity He thought that was a bad thing
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Yes and no Orwell had his blindspots and his contrarian turn after WWII does indicate in some ways he was revving up to follow the same socialist-to-reactionary pipeline Hitchens did
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