Zoney wrote:
I'd be curious to see if this book defines some of the common Wikipedia terms that someone else in this thread describes here as being newspeak (actually, I think the way Wikipedia treats words like "consensus" is worse than newspeak; it's not that the words are given another meaning or given a good/bad connotation - it's that they can mean anything that the people using them want them to).
Or whatever will most successfully propagate the notion that resistance is futile. Policy discussions quickly exhaust the majority, leaving a handful of enthusiastic individuals plenty of latitude for deceiving themselves into believing that their schemes are widely accepted.
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