Not only that,but the notion that mid-century totalitarian governments used sophisticated rhetorical tropes to subjugate the populace is absurd. Brute force, unrelenting, combined with enforced starvation of an illiterate population is what was perpetrated.
Orwell is, at best, an amusing distraction.
Brute force, unrelenting, combined with enforced starvation of an illiterate population is what was perpetrated.Exactly!
The intellectual class is convinced that wordsmiths can only create the ultimate totalitarian society. The wordsmith's are, in fact, the useful idiots of the viscous, illiterate thugs that always run the show.
Orwell is, at best, an amusing distraction.
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So are you, but not nearly so amusing.