This disbelief in progress - moral progress, intellectual progress, material progress ("I have seen both, in an egg, we call it going bad in Narnia") This dismissal of the idea that the human race, over time, continues to learn things
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Hence everything that's happened since Aquinas wrote the Summa Theologica is just modern fluff and nonsense It's all heresies refuted by theologians long ago You can forget about it The truth is obvious, it's common sense, it's what we've always known for a fact
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This brand of conservatism - its sheer *laziness*, the smugness of its incuriosity and intellectual indolence - Orwell had no respect for He straight up did not think it could survive the 20th century, period, not with the massive constant change outside your window
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Hence the "right wing", as such, just isn't there in 1984 He predicted the Tories, the Church, old school tradcons, just wouldn't survive, they'd crumble and vanish and the choice was authoritarian vs liberatory revolution
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That was a massive miscalculation on his part, and it's why I think 1984, despite being a classic, is such a flawed book The fact that Orwell hated conservatives so much and yet conservatives adopted him so readily obviously means he fucked up
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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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Newspeak was a "language of tautologies" To be a doubleplusgood duckspeaker was to just say a bunch of shit that conveyed no information other than the signal "I am speaking obvious truths"
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"Ingsoc good, Party plusgood, Big Brother doubleplusgood, crimethink ungood" That's you right now Like how do you not see that's you
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One fault of 1984 was that it was a strictly class based dystopia with no regard for race or gender. It's even mentioned that the Inner Party is racially diverse.
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Yes, I actually think Orwell's brand of Marxism and his pessimistic take on the Whiggish view of history -- oppression will evolve into more rational, more efficient forms over time -- messed him up here Those old forms have a lot of life in them yet
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