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Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1201" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/1984-george-orwell/590638/" target="_blank"><strong>Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined - The Atlantic</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 </strong></p><p></p><p>No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s <em>1984. </em>The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate Oceania with the ideology of Ingsoc—<em>doublethink</em>, <em>memory hole</em>, <em>unperson</em>, <em>thoughtcrime</em>, <em>Newspeak</em>, <em>Thought Police</em>, <em>Room 101</em>, <em>Big Brother</em>—they’ve all entered the English language as instantly recognizable signs of a nightmare future. It’s almost impossible to talk about propaganda, surveillance, authoritarian politics, or perversions of truth without dropping a reference to <em>1984. </em>Throughout the Cold War, the novel found avid underground readers behind the Iron Curtain who wondered, <em>How did he know?</em> </p><p></p><p>It was also assigned reading for several generations of American high-school students. I first encountered <em>1984 </em>in 10th-grade English class. Orwell’s novel was paired with Aldous Huxley’s <em>Brave New World</em>, whose hedonistic and pharmaceutical dystopia seemed more relevant to a California teenager in the 1970s than did the bleak sadism of Oceania. I was too young and historically ignorant to understand where <em>1984 </em>came from and exactly what it was warning against. Neither the book nor its author stuck with me. In my 20s, I discovered Orwell’s essays and nonfiction books and reread them so many times that my copies started to disintegrate, but I didn’t go back to <em>1984</em>. Since high school, I’d lived through another decade of the 20th century, including the calendar year of the title, and I assumed I already “knew” the book. It was too familiar to revisit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1201, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/1984-george-orwell/590638/'][B]Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell Imagined - The Atlantic[/B][/URL] [B]The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 [/B] No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s [I]1984. [/I]The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate Oceania with the ideology of Ingsoc—[I]doublethink[/I], [I]memory hole[/I], [I]unperson[/I], [I]thoughtcrime[/I], [I]Newspeak[/I], [I]Thought Police[/I], [I]Room 101[/I], [I]Big Brother[/I]—they’ve all entered the English language as instantly recognizable signs of a nightmare future. It’s almost impossible to talk about propaganda, surveillance, authoritarian politics, or perversions of truth without dropping a reference to [I]1984. [/I]Throughout the Cold War, the novel found avid underground readers behind the Iron Curtain who wondered, [I]How did he know?[/I] It was also assigned reading for several generations of American high-school students. I first encountered [I]1984 [/I]in 10th-grade English class. Orwell’s novel was paired with Aldous Huxley’s [I]Brave New World[/I], whose hedonistic and pharmaceutical dystopia seemed more relevant to a California teenager in the 1970s than did the bleak sadism of Oceania. I was too young and historically ignorant to understand where [I]1984 [/I]came from and exactly what it was warning against. Neither the book nor its author stuck with me. In my 20s, I discovered Orwell’s essays and nonfiction books and reread them so many times that my copies started to disintegrate, but I didn’t go back to [I]1984[/I]. Since high school, I’d lived through another decade of the 20th century, including the calendar year of the title, and I assumed I already “knew” the book. It was too familiar to revisit. [/QUOTE]
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