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Newspeak: a fictional language in George Orwell's novel 1984

Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel 1984. It has a reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim was to make any...

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G. Chesterton - Capitalism and Communism rest on the same idea: a Centralization of Wealth destroying Private Property

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), was a poet and essayist. In his work The End of the Armistice, Chesterton wrote: "both capitalism and communism rest on the same idea: a centralization of wealth...

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George Orwell Revisited

Big Brother seems to be breathing down my neck. I'm probably more paranoid than the next guy, but "1984" and George Orwell had it right. The police, the state of Connecticut and the IRS are all watching me -- and you!

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1984 - The primary aim of modern continuous warfare: maintain the stability of a hierarchical society.

The Malthus Factor: Poverty Politics and Population in Capitalist Development It examines how Malthusian arguments portrayed agricultural modernization as a humanitarian attempt to forestall a food crisis in...

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Doublethink

Some may not know the reference but it is an important word to describe the thinking which is leading to world destruction.You laugh but we will if we continue to think this way.What is it that we're...

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Do You Speakwrite And Doublethink Different Languages And Sometimes Mix Them Up

You have a conversation in Spanish with a Spanish colleague, while answering an email in English to a supplier in the USA and you have to tell a Spanish colleague, between the conversation and the email, the German translation of a Spanish technical term ?

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Twenty in Two Coins

Have you ever wondered as a child to the nature of you illnesses? What exactly is wrong with me, you might have though in paraphrase. Do I have the sniffles, a tummy ache, or do I have to poo real bad?...

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Propaganda techniques

Propagandists use a variety of propaganda techniques to influence opinions and to avoid the truth. Often these techniques rely on either omitting significant information or distorting it. During the period...

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How propaganda works: the ruse of Hegelian Dialectic

[Humoristic Book] Principia Discordia or the Hegelian Dialectic for the Masses "each crisis is 'an opportunity' to have develop out of this tragedy a new world order". -- George W. Bush invoked the new world...

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Cognitive Dissonance: Orwell called it DOUBLETHINK

Newspeak: Orwell's fictional language How propaganda works: the ruse of hegelian dialectics Social psychologist Leon Festinger first proposed the theory in 1956: Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term...

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