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"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
by haroldp 3y ago
"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."
- ben_w 3y agoCensorship by itself doesn't stop people thinking (or even expressing) forbidden thoughts, it stops a person's words reaching other people. BNW had a similar effect by conditioning, rather than by applying the strong form of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.
- haroldp 3y agoIt's not perfectly isometric, but neither is it a stretch to call it orwellian.