G. Stolyarov II is a science fiction novelist, independent philosophical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician and composer, contributor to Enter Stage Right, writer for Objective Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator. He can be contacted at gennadystolyarovii@yahoo.com.
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2 posted on
04/11/2003 7:09:57 PM PDT by
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To: G. Stolyarov II
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I am convinced the key to imposing doublething is control over the structure of language --overuse of the metaphor, evasive (bland) abstraction, deletion of confrontive concepts and vocabulary, and so forth.
4 posted on
04/11/2003 7:24:36 PM PDT by
RLK
To: G. Stolyarov II; RLK
The Party said that [the United States] had never been in alliance with [Saddam Hussein]. He, Winston Smith, knew that [the United States] had been in alliance with [Saddam] as short a time as [15] years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control,' they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink.'
6 posted on
04/11/2003 7:30:50 PM PDT by
JohnGalt
(Class of '98)
To: G. Stolyarov II
1984 was a novel, and a rather mediocre one at that. Presenting it as a study of rhetoric is emabarassing.
For you.
To: G. Stolyarov II
19 posted on
04/11/2003 8:26:16 PM PDT by
VxH
To: G. Stolyarov II
bookmarked
46 posted on
04/11/2003 10:27:11 PM PDT by
TLBSHOW
(The gift is to see the truth.....)
To: G. Stolyarov II
I enjoy your essays, keep them coming.
Thanks.
47 posted on
04/12/2003 1:17:50 AM PDT by
Gigantor
(It's not what you accomplish, but what you overcome.)
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