Sunday Mar 25th 2007
(Yet another) reason why people are bored with politics
The most perceptive book ever written about politics – in many and varied ways – is ‘1984’. One of the cleverest things about it was Orwell’s recognition that ultimately totalitarian regimes would seek to control thought by controlling language: hence the concept of Newspeak, with its ‘thoughtcrimes’ ‘doubleplusungoods’ and ‘unpersons’. Presumably some US graduate student has written a thesis on whether it is actually possible to control people’s minds in this way – let me know if you find one.
Salieri | 11:07pm |
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