TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWe should Describe Authoritarian policies as "INGSOC-ian" not "Orwellian." George Orwell was just the Messenger [literature][political slant]message-squaremessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down113
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareWe should Describe Authoritarian policies as "INGSOC-ian" not "Orwellian." George Orwell was just the Messenger [literature][political slant]TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square12linkfedilink
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 month agoSubstituting words to mold the way people using them think? Pretty OrwellianINGSOCian.
minus-squarenymnympseudonym@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI’m 100% down with this. James Clapper’s doublespeak to US Congress was the shocking reality to me that I lived under an INGSOCian government. (I mean, this was the US and it’s ING for England, but also it’s called Oceana because the big pond is in the middle but it’s the same Government)
Substituting words to mold the way people using them think? Pretty
OrwellianINGSOCian.I’m 100% down with this. James Clapper’s doublespeak to US Congress was the shocking reality to me that I lived under an INGSOCian government.
(I mean, this was the US and it’s ING for England, but also it’s called Oceana because the big pond is in the middle but it’s the same Government)