He believed that, through clear and unambiguous writing, we could change how people think. A phrase such as "we support our troops" would, in Bliss, contain a b

He believed that, through clear and unambiguous writing, we could change how people think. A phrase such as "we support our troops" would, in Bliss, contain a built-in contradiction. These symbols are very interesting but I'm not sure that we should be choosing writing systems based on the presence of comforting oxymorons. That doesn't seem like a valid form of reasoning at all. I mean, I hate to bring up Orwell because it's so cliche, but that's really Orwellian. “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.”