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This Is Your Last Warning
MOTUS A.D. ^ | 3-21-19 | MOTUS

Posted on 03/21/2019 6:57:02 AM PDT by NOBO2012

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’

Appendix

THE PRINCIPLES OF NEWSPEAK

Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism…It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050. Meanwhile it gained ground steadily, all Party members tending to use Newspeak words and grammatical constructions more and more in their everyday speech. The version in use in 1984, and embodied in the Ninth and Tenth Editions of the Newspeak Dictionary, was a provisional one, and contained many superfluous words and archaic formations which were due to be suppressed later.

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Wow, I’m so old that I remember when “1984” was just a book, and a fictional one at that.

Original 1954 Penguin edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, left, 2013 edition, right

You might have heard that Jordan Peterson had accepted a visiting fellowship to Cambridge, the elite British university. If not, never mind, as they rescinded the offer less than 48 hours after it was made due to alleged “hatemongering” on Professor Peterson’s part.

“[Cambridge] is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot,” a spokesperson for the university said.

Whereas by “inclusive” they mean the opposite this would automatically make the list of finalists in this year’s “most ironically non self-aware statement.”  What a great homage to Newspeak, more so as they didn’t do it intentionally.

Critics maintain that Mr. Peterson, a University of Toronto professor, is “transphobic” because he said that he would not be coerced by future laws to use state-mandated language.

His commentary — a warning on the linguistic and legal seeds of totalitarianism — came during a 2016 debate over Canada’s “C-16 bill.”  Washington Times 

I should note here that just calling the truth “hate” doesn’t make it so. Not yet; although I understand legislatures around the world are already busily trying to make it so.

I would like to offer kudos to Jordan Peterson for teaching the entire Cambridge community, or at least any still open to learning, the first principle of totalitarianism without ever having stepped a foot on campus.

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Nobody can say they weren’t warned.

Image result for totalitarianism imagine a boot stamping on face

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TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1984; fascism; georgeorwell; jordanpeterson; newspeak; oxford; tyranny

1 posted on 03/21/2019 6:57:02 AM PDT by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

We’re in the era of “newspeak” now.


2 posted on 03/21/2019 6:59:10 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: NOBO2012

Fictional? That is debatable.


3 posted on 03/21/2019 6:59:31 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: NOBO2012

oh great to see this here. On the Dose/Trump Train Thread we have been wanting to have a discussion on this book. I will make sure I ping the group

Thanks


4 posted on 03/21/2019 7:02:04 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is -- tell the storm how big your God is.)
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To: NOBO2012
Yeah...and just try to purchase a Tommy Robinson book on Amazon

Not listed on the USA Amazon

and when you go to the UK Amazon to purchase, the message:

Important Message

There was a problem with some of the items in your order (see below for more information):

Tommy Robinson: Enemy of the State

Sorry, this item can't be sent to your selected address.

Learn more. You may either change the delivery address or delete the item from your order. You can also see if this item is available for delivery to your address from another seller.


5 posted on 03/21/2019 7:11:45 AM PDT by spokeshave (recovering Spokeshave from another computer.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Amen and Amen. The closer we got the more prophetic this book has become. Now it’s words clang in my ears. That is no liberty bell its the sound of Warning and Alarm!


6 posted on 03/21/2019 7:23:26 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: NOBO2012

Many warnings have been given. The general public is more interested in “survivor” and “two and a half men.” The politicians are too busy giving favors to those who vote them into office.


7 posted on 03/21/2019 7:27:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: NOBO2012

1984 was a warning, not a frigg’n instruction manual.


8 posted on 03/21/2019 7:30:24 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: WKUHilltopper

The left has been successful in convincing most Millennials that they need to support the government in destroying the First and Second Amendments and save the world from the dreaded climate change and become recipients of all the free stuff they are entitled to receive.


9 posted on 03/21/2019 7:35:42 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: NOBO2012

Newspeak? What happened to ebonics?


10 posted on 03/21/2019 7:36:29 AM PDT by stuckinloozeeana
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To: AFreeBird

1984 was a warning, not a frigg’n instruction manual.

In 1973, I had to read it in English literature class and it was presented as a classic.


11 posted on 03/21/2019 8:06:32 AM PDT by excalibur21
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To: NOBO2012
Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought,

The decision to think or not is free, but the decision about what to think about in any given case depends on one's prior values, interests, knowledge, and context. Control the mode of thought of the masses, and one can control the values, interests, knowledge, and context of the masses. A disintegrated mode of thought or one that worships big government can achieve control of thought.

12 posted on 03/21/2019 8:48:23 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: NOBO2012
Why, in the 2013 edition of the book, are the title and name of the author blacked out?

Regards,

13 posted on 03/21/2019 9:17:48 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Great comment. A Keeper.


14 posted on 03/21/2019 9:54:00 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: AFreeBird
1984 was a warning, not a frigg’n instruction manual

"Animal Farm" was the instructional book, "1984" was the result.

15 posted on 03/21/2019 11:35:08 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: stuckinloozeeana

Ebonics was a step towards an eventual goal.


16 posted on 03/21/2019 4:27:35 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: alexander_busek
Why, in the 2013 edition of the book, are the title and name of the author blacked out?

Converts the book cover into a censorship meme

And you can't get copy of this book on Amazon USA:


17 posted on 03/22/2019 12:54:05 AM PDT by spokeshave (recovering Spokeshave from another computer.)
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