They keep thinking 1984 is an instruction manual: "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it."
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Replying to @LongBeachBum @olivertraldi
No, Walter, that isn't what the argument is at all. But good job on skimming and cherrypicking one of Orwell's novels to feel better about your panic about intellectualism, I doubt that you've made an actual study of his work.
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Replying to @henrytheeVth @olivertraldi
"...he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.
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THEY ARE DUCKSPEAKING HOW DO THEY NOT SEE THAT THEY ARE THE DOUBLEPLUSGOOD DUCKSPEAKERS
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