Have you actually read 1984? If so, answer this question. I know I sound like some crazy doomsayer, but do you see an eerie connection between text messaging and newspeak?
2006-07-14 17:01:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
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It's not text messaging, it's the dumbing down of everything. Phrases like collateral damage for murder and mindless patriotism on the one hand and hatred of the omnipresent terrorist leading citizens to agree to the erosion of civil liberties while thinking they are free.
Thought crime also rings true
2006-07-14 17:21:40 · answer #1 · answered by Hoolahoop 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't think so -- Newspeak is an attempt by Orwell to describe a deliberate intent to exploit this decadence with the aim of oppressing its speakers.
A comparison to Newspeak may arguably be seen in political rhetoric, where two opposing sides string together phrases so empty of meaning that they may be compared to the taunts young children toss back and forth. The arguments of either side ultimately reduce to "I'm good; he's bad."
Another common use of Newspeak today is the overuse of abbreviations.
The 1950 short story "The Silly Season" by Science Fiction writer Cyril M. Kornbluth contained a text resembling Newspeak, though in a completely different context - not the artificial tongue of a tyrannical regime, but simply a kind of journalists' shorthand.
2006-07-15 00:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by shoppingontherun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have read 1984...but it has been a while.
Winston Smith worked at some administrative task with device that sounds like the internet.
Newspeak...if anything....reminds me of politically correct speech.
Link to Literature Network with 1984 in its entirety online
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
2006-07-15 00:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read this a long time ago and it seems like most of what is going on was in that book because Big Brother is probably tuned into this program right now.
2006-07-15 00:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by Elwood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL! I was thinking this just yesterday! My assessment: it's double plus ungood.
2006-07-15 00:50:48 · answer #5 · answered by silvercomet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Also his reference to SOMA. A drug for sleeping.
2006-07-15 00:05:22 · answer #6 · answered by Wendy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who has not?
I thought everyone had read it.
2006-07-15 00:05:06 · answer #7 · answered by moonlightbogey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋