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
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Tradition is a *positive thing* for authoritarians, something they race to co-opt Familiarity and comfort are their favored sword and shield, they come carrying a Bible and wrapped in the flag Yes, this is true of Uncle Joe Stalin's regime too
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Orwell dismisses that In his mind the bad guys are the bad guys because they will burn all the books and destroy the language and make everything different and strange and kill everything he loves Because it's about his own shit as much as it is an honest appraisal of Stalin
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now that i think about it, the pint/liter stuff makes little sense in the story if i were an all-powerful party, i'd just invent my own measurements and (if i were super dickish) gradually reduce them over the years so the dude got less and less beer every time
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For all you know they have been doing that
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And that's not even metric! Even the Simpsons had a decimal clock in the episode with technocratic reformers
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