God the state of it *Do* you have even one opinion you didn't get from your public school education and from your peer group? Do you yourself actually make any effort to learn interesting things from outside your bubble? Cause it really doesn't come off that way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
One side is arguing something stupid because they really want James to be wrong about Critical Theory and their whole ideology that gets everything wrong. But all the cool kids are into it, so why not, everyone needs to get ahead somehow.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
But yea, let’s bash Orwell because all the cool kids who within about 5 years, all started thinking the exact same slogans and using an alternative language at the institutional level, but hella shit god forbid the internets points it out.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
The dystopian control of language that happened in 1984 was not the creation of slang, jargon, or inside jokes without telling you about it. It wasn't the expansion of language at all. It was the restriction of language to limit the variety of ideas that could be expressed.
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Replying to @RedOphiuchus @JeremyPhilosoph and
Yeah this frustrates me the most The point of Newspeak was that it *didn't contain any words that weren't in Oldspeak* It was designed so that anyone could supposedly look at it and instantly know what everything said, to discourage thinking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RedOphiuchus and
The appendix about Newspeak says that the Party finds specialized academic jargon to be a threat and seeks to avoid it as a necessary evil -- engineers who build the Floating Fortresses etc get to use jargon but only at work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RedOphiuchus and
It must be really difficult to be a goodthinkful engineer in Oceania, given that engineering work can't function without on some level keeping in mind that real physics is unarguable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
I mean that's the strongest argument that the Party is obviously going to collapse though Winston's gloomy fatalism that doublethink is an unbreakable armor for ideology is obviously wrong Doublethink obviously always does fail eventually
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
Which is why Orwell's depressive mood when writing 1984 is pretty clearly not an actual serious prediction of the future I mean this isn't a new idea, it's orthodox Marxism - capitalism requires false consciousness (doublethink) to sustain itself
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And said false consciousness eventually collapses under the weight of its contradictions 1984 is this very pessimistic "But what if it doesn't?" dystopia but it doesn't, like, actually "argue" or "prove" that it doesn't
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