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every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.[...] every year fewer and fewer wordsm and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. even, now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for commiting thoughtcrime. it's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. but in the end there won't be any need for that. The revolution will be complete when the language is complete. newspeak is ingsoc (english socialism) and ingsoc is newspeak.[...]
the whole climate of thought will be different. in fact where will be no thought, as we understand it now. orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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george orwell / 1984
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