#orwell 1984

[resisteverything]

One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.

In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.

More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.

Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask someone of the same sex to fuck you because the word for gay sex is the exact same as the word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.

Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.

[whereserpentswalk]

"We need to go back in time to show Gorge Orwell the state of the internet." "We need to go back in time to show Marx modern capitalism." Man up and go back in time to show Sigmund Freud Omegaverse.

[soberscientistlife]

Who knew that a novel I read in high school would play before my eyes as an adult.

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Literally 1984

[somehow---here]

Fino a che non diventeranno coscienti del loro potere, non saranno mai capaci di ribellarsi, e fino a che non si saranno liberati, non diventeranno mai coscienti del loro potere.

George Orwell, "1984", cap. 7, dal diario di Winston

[psykopaths]

1984, (1984)

[cxmembert]

“1984 is about [political group]” no stfu 1984 is about an aromantic man having a special interest in paper weights and razors

[possessedbydevils]

"Your rebellion is between your legs,"

OH MY GOD

[ancient4liens]

it’s April 4th

[philosophors]

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

— George Orwell, “1984”

[hobgobknowsbest]

[cinnamonsly]

mr winston

[cameron-possibly]

if you want a vision of the future: imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

[majorahollow]

enjoy

[connoisseurhacker]

Dystopian Spectrum

[ratman-sewage]

i dont have an explanation for this