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RE: Language, Euphemism, and Distorted Definitions
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.
- 1984 - George Orwell.
Absolutely. I was just citing that very quote yesterday! An amazing insight provided by Orwell there (one of many). We've got to get it straightened out, one person at a time, starting with ourselves. If the world be full of sheep, let the shepherds lead them to enlightenment, and the vice of following be turned to virtue.