Re:George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens
by pjc50 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:21PM
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He wrote an entire essay on politics and the English language: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli... which he complains about incoherent metaphors as cover for bad politics. Newspeak is a language in which metaphor is banned, and therefore politics and opposing the state is impossible.
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