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You may assume that I read it thoroughly. The first time was in 1984. The more I read it, the more things I find that are already reality.
by Rochus 6y ago
You may assume that I read it thoroughly. The first time was in 1984. The more I read it, the more things I find that are already reality.
- Kye 6y agoI hope you give the words of people proposing improvements to language as much consideration. They aren't all mindless screamers on Twitter or people looking to remove all character from communication.
- Rochus 6y agoIs it possible that you have trouble with other opinions?
- Kye 6y agoWas the quote supposed to be an opinion? My opinion is that if you share someone else's thoughts in place of your own, then it's not your opinion. And Orwell is dead. I can't ask him what he thinks about this. edit for the non-insulting reply: I only flagged the low-effort non-contribution that started this thread and the insult below. Someone else is responsible for the rest. Your other comments, though not very substantial, are more of a downvote situation--which I can't do on replies--than a flag situation.
- Rochus 6y agoAt least you have heard of him, and obviously you know how to operate the "flagged" button. A nice toy for everyone who wants to play thought police.
- Rochus 6y agoWhat a self-righteous person you are.
- dang 6y agoIf you attack another user like this on HN, we will ban you, regardless of how wrong they are or how right you are or how wrong you feel they are or how right you feel you are. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519070 was already over the line. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Rochus 6y agoThen please delete it. I have no delete button. You have already deleted my original answer to which the fellow made an unobjective comment against my integrity. As it stands now, a wrong impression about the course of the conversation is created. Therefore please also delete https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519104.
- Rochus 6y agoJust for the record: this is the quotation that the fellow managed to make disappear by flagging: "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." George Orwell, 1984 I really don't understand why someone sees the necessity to flag something like this. It perfectly fits the topic under discussion and doesn't violate any HN rule. This is world literature and can still inspire us to think seventy years later when we see which developments, considered dystopian in 1948, have become reality today in the described or analogous way.
- dang 6y agoYou posted the quote as a top-level comment with no other information (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518702). That was obviously ideological flamebait, and really a form of name-calling, so it was rightly flagged. Also, it's a red herring to bring up the fact that your top-level comment was flagged, when you degenerated into outrageous violations of the guidelines later in the thread. You can't do that, and if you do it again we will ban you—not because we're Orwellian villains, but because it's not ok to vandalize this site. Would you please review the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html