Posted on 08/15/2014 11:40:02 AM PDT by DFG
The literary executor of George Orwell's estate is accusing Amazon.com of committing an Orwellian crime: doublespeak.
In a letter published this week in The New York Times, Bill Hamilton criticized the online retailer for "turning the facts inside out" by alleging that the British author known for the novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" had urged publishers in the 1930s to join together and stop the rise of paperbacks.
"I'm both appalled and wryly amused that Amazon's tactics should come straight out of Orwell's own nightmare dystopia, '1984,'" Hamilton wrote.
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Bozo from Amazon is a far left winger...Bezos donates millions to Obama while avoiding paying taxes, since they moved main office to Luxemburg across the pond, and at that point they owed $6 billion in back U S Taxes.
Fasicism, Communism, Socialism... same thing really..
Different masks same problem.. envy, greed, rogue givernment..
Orwell’s fictional language was Newspeak, not doublespeak.
Doublespeak was, however, a central idea therein. (As was Doublethink — the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.
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Wiki states the term is not used in 1984. The notion of talking out of both sides of one’s mouth long predates Orwell. Doublethink is, as you point out, an important Orwellian concept, but bears no relationship to what Amazon is being accused of.
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