In the Current Year, Newspeak Rules Supreme

Newspeak is a term coined by George Orwell for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It’s a linguistic system designed to limit thought; one which twists grammar so that all possible statements are either nonsensical or supportive of the existent power structure, thus limiting and preventing Thoughtcrime in the population – that is, any statements that question the status quo. It’s a language that implicitly endorses whatever the state holds to be true, even when that truth changes on a...