Re:Ask HN: Have you invested in self-development and done in...
by verisimi on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @01:41PM
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Yes.
And it says something else again when one cannot even distinguish different professional approaches and moral/ethical/spiritual development.
Edit for an Orwell quote on Newspeak:
The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished?
And it says something else again when one cannot even distinguish different professional approaches and moral/ethical/spiritual development.
Edit for an Orwell quote on Newspeak:
The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished?