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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