The Effective Way to Destroy People
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” –George Orwell […]
The Gradual Abolition of Language
“You think, I daresay, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words— scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language right down to the bone. Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? [...]
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
George Orwell Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his own fashion, which is to emerge from a hole in the ground, where he has lain buried since the previous autumn, and crawl as rapidly as possible [...]