One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.

In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.

More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.

Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask someone of the same sex to fuck you because the word for gay sex is the exact same as the word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.

Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.

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GLAAD are erasing same-sex attraction, by redefining "homosexual" to pretend it's "derogatory and offensive."

Yes, that GLAAD.

You thought they were kidding. They're never kidding.

These organizations are not what you think they are or what they used to be.

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." -- George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

A far-right oligarch like Elon Musk taking over one of the world's major communication networks and using it to rewrite Orwell's history is, to be perfectly honest…pretty Orwellian.

The curse of having read 1984 is that you will see some sort of very common internet/gen z language and you’re just like “oh that’s newspeak” and then you dissociate for several minutes thinking about how the meanings of words are changed in order to perpetuate the class system

The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. 'The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

—George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four pt i, ch v (1949)

[Robert Scott Horton]

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Actually having to say "unalive" because discussing death publicly goes against corporate interests is the most 1984 shit I've ever heard

people will call Holden from the catcher in the rye a “manipulative misogynist” but praise 1984 in the same breath

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Every time I have to read “unalive” in a serious context, I lose two years off my life.

In 1984, telescreens offered entertainment and propaganda, while at the same time working as spy cams for the government so that all needed to be of one mind and on their best behavior for Big Brother was always watching. London was the chief city of Airstrip One, which was one the provinces of Oceania. The official language of Oceania was Newspeak, a form of politically correct inspired speech. The government continually rewrote history and news so that their opinion had never changed and everything lined up with their current world view and policies. Technically nothing was illegal, but the inhabitants lived in continual fear of the Thought Police. Many women who were especially loyal to the party joined the Anti-Sex league. Through propaganda, especially during the Two Minutes Hate, the masses were constantly reminded who their enemies were and were encouraged to express their hate. The world was in a continual state of war but who was enemy and ally kept changing between Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. The continual warfare helped justify hardships like the rationing of almost everything as well the importance to loyalty of ones nation. ("1884", Bk)

Nothing in modern literature I think parallels the impressive absurdity that has emerged from the modern interpretations of 1984 and its key concepts. In my research on the novel over the last two years, the references and usage of quotations I've seen online, particularly in political commentary, have become more apparent; though what impresses me the most about these usages is that they seem to rely on the poster, speaker, and audience not reading the text to begin with nor understanding its messages.

1984, unlike perhaps any other non-religious text, appears to no longer be a novel, but rather a subjective concept that is used as a blanket-reference to anything disliked without requiring further analysis.

Honestly, I'd love to do a short series on this blog of people sending me examples of political or general 1984 references so I can pick them apart, because I really do love this novel and the interpretations applied to it online both worry and intrigue me. (Asks open.)

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I'm starting to think that certain words are becoming taboo in an almost superstitious sense, to an almost religious degree, all thanks to algorithms.

I can understand wanting to censor "fuck," for example. I get that. That's the 7 words you can't say on television. That's pretty common.

But the developing superstitions surrounding saying "kill" or "murder" or "die" is totally fascinating. They're becoming forbidden words, complete with euphemisms. It's "unalive(d)" or "caused s. to pass away." Don't you dare say "kill" or "die!" And it's not just on the clock app. It moved to YouTube with the argument being that there's an age restriction put on certain videos that say things like "kill" or "death." Or, worse, the channel itself is obliterated--because it used Bad Words!!!!!

And now the euphemisms are spreading elsewhere, with arguments being made that the Bad Words make people uncomfortable or upset. And now I'm starting to see Newspeak like "unalive" being used unironically on places like Reddit--Reddit, of all places; the milder version of 4chan--on places like r/tipofmytongue: "1990s movie where a man unalived someone..."

It's like... The Holy Algorithm rejects the use of these words, alleluia, alleluia. The Holy Algorithm has declared these words to be forbidden and they must not be used. To use of these words is anathema and these are the words which are not to be used, for thy Algorithm is a jealous Algorithm. They who will use these words will be struck down by the Algorithm and those who serve the Algorithm. Hear the words of those who serve the Algorithm, ye all, and repent.

The word of the Lord. (Thanks be to Susan.)

You can say "murdered." It's okay. You can say "killed." They say it on the news and in books. You can say it. It's okay. The Algorithm can't get you here.

(On the other hand, kids, you're trying to use the Hot People Dancing app to talk about real issues. Maybe this is a you problem. Maybe you need a better platform.)