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
I mean, Orwell did have shitty "get off my lawn" sentiments about neologisms and slang, that's what his essay Politics and the English Language is about, but that's not what Newspeak in 1984 is His own thoughts on the issue were clearly somewhat muddled
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RedOphiuchus and
One can create jargon to avoid thinking, it doesn’t need to be the same model, hence “whiteness” and “systemic racism,” terms used by people who aren’t experts in anything to describe systems, with a kernel of truth, with no intent to understand or fix them.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @arthur_affect and
so your argument is that creating terminology that allows one to re-examine assumptions of how the world works is bad? and somehow the other side is The Party?
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Replying to @fennecfoxguy @arthur_affect and
Not at all. Jargon can be used for different reasons, MAGA and The Woke use simple slogans for different reasons, but none of them expand the scope of understanding anything, as much as creating internal communication, which functions a bit different than 1984.
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Replying to @JeremyPhilosoph @fennecfoxguy and
Pretty sure as soon as you start capitalizing the word woke you surrender the ability to criticize jargon or expanding the scope of understanding
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