Iată o afirmație a lui AS cu care sunt de acord fără rezervă.
Dar, desigur, este firesc: NEWSPEAK-ul este generalizat. Doar că, adesea, ne lăsăm furați de peisaj. Repet, 1984 NU este despre stalinism/comunism: este despre capitalism/liberalism.
By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
INGSOC!