PHIL 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Orwell, Human Nature
1 Apr 2018
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Plenty: in charge of keeping people hungry enough to want more. Language us not for expression, it"s to set the tone and change the frame of reference. If you have the power to affect language use, you have the power to affect mindsets. Those who have infinite power can force truth and therefore reality. To destroy minds and create them with will. Language controls what goes on between your ears. If you destroy words, you constrain language and there is no way of articulating descent. Language won"t permit it, therefore, people won"t have the capacity of thought. A continuous war is important not only to control enemies but also to assess power within a state and control citizens.
