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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      I mean hey we can stick to the text of that one book you love so much if you want The strawman you're accusing me of is solipsism, and 1984 is explicit that the Party rejects solipsism and considers their ideology to be the exact opposite of solipsism ("You do not exist")

      1 reply 2 retweets 37 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      "Any point of view has some validity to it, every model actually used by human beings must have some utility and therefore truth, give everything a chance before tossing it away" That was what Carr said, and it's the OPPOSITE of saying truth is received wisdom from the Party

      1 reply 1 retweet 26 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      The freedom to play, the freedom to fuck around and say "What games with language can I use to make 2+2=5 work if I want it to" The Party is absolutely opposed to that The concept of Newspeak is explicitly to make this kind of thing impossible

      3 replies 3 retweets 47 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      The dickhead conservatives who've adopted Orwell love to say "Newspeak" to mean any jargon they don't like or understand, especially "PC jargon" But Newspeak is the OPPOSITE of that Newspeak is about only using simple words that everyone knows whose intended meaning is obvious

      2 replies 10 retweets 89 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      It's designed to make you talk like a little kid "Good" and "ungood" are the only words you can use to judge something All verbs have only one tense ("think" and not "thought") Language is supposed to become easy and automatic, there are no double meanings "Duckspeaking"

      1 reply 1 retweet 34 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      Do you not see how, IN PRACTICE, this is much more like you than like me This obsession with the concept of "plain speech", of obvious meanings and simple communication and clearing the culture of any traps and snares laid by complex abstract thought

      1 reply 3 retweets 46 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      You know what I'm stuck on is how much Orwell hated CS Lewis' Mere Christianity for exactly this reason CS Lewis' whole job as a Christian apologist, defending a traditional and dominant ideology from challenge, was reassuring people in this way

      1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      "This is what everyone already thinks and everyone already thinks it because it's logical and true, it's the evidence right in front of your face, 2+2=4, everyone trying to tell you it's more complicated than that is just fucking with you"

      1 reply 2 retweets 23 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      And now, after his death, Orwell has been drafted into playing the SAME ROLE They use his work to say the same thing Hell, plenty of Christian conservatives straight up tell you "If you want to understand resistance progressive orthodoxy read Orwell and CS Lewis"

      1 reply 1 retweet 25 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      Like holy shit Holy historical irony, Batman

      1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

      And yeah, I think that this is honestly Orwell's fault He genuinely had a steady rightward drift during the 1940s, he was becoming a reflexive left-puncher The real threat was always among revolutionaries, the existing conservative authorities were a joke, not worth mentioning

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

          1984 has O'Brien talk about the old religions and nations and capitalists as already defeated, dead and buried, ancient history Orwell seriously believed that was what was gonna happen, and happen soon - the old order in its death throes

          1 reply 2 retweets 22 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @CorwinRowlette and

          Which we now know in hindsight is nonsense - the old oppressors are still there and never lost power It's 36 years after 1984 irl and we very much do still have capitalists, they aren't some ghostly memory of guys in top hats and tuxes

          1 reply 3 retweets 28 likes
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