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To: Steely Tom
If they’re in a class behind bars, they’ll be called ‘students.’

So how do I tell the difference between the "students" at the University of Washington who are allowed to leave campus and the "students" in prison in Washington who are not?

"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. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller." - 1984, George Orwell

19 posted on 11/04/2016 10:27:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: KarlInOhio
Orwell was right.

In Ayn Rand's Anthem the word "I" didn't exist for the characters, not that they needed one, being part of the collective, and all. They didn't even have names...just numbers, if I remember correctly.

Coming soon to a republic near you.

51 posted on 11/04/2016 3:06:42 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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