Cited Book: George Orwell’s 1984

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind
~ George Orwell

Orwell’s novel 1984 becomes more relevant every year.

• The technology to monitor every utterance, movement, keystroke used routinely to spy on everyone.
• Articles disappear, are edited and censored, are rewritten without record of changes.
• Those who resist, such as Bradley/Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden are not just jailed, they are tortured in state-of-the-art ways.
• The government devises a specialised language for lying to people.
• Vilification of leaders of other countries to build group spirit.
• The government teaches children to spy on and betray their parents.
• We have even gone a little further, monitoring people’s thoughts so they cannot hide anything.
• But by far the most important, the people meekly submit.