Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Orwell would understand
Rapper Kanye West has been telling the truth, so he has to be silenced.
A lot of people here feel like they lost... you know why... because y'all been lied to. Google lied to you. Facebook lied to you. Radio lied to you.
Truth.
sometime we be playing the politics too much
Truth.
The response by the Inquisitors is standard Stalin. Truth is a pathology. "Nervous breakdown". Here's the specifically Orwellian part:
Billboard reports that Kanye went on another epic (albeit incomprehensible) rant...
Incomprehensible.
From Orwell's essay on Newspeak:
It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc — should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.Incomprehensible.
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