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Flat White

Newspeak and rewriting history

3 February 2022

4:00 AM

3 February 2022

4:00 AM

As our captured two-party system embeds robotic politicians in the parliaments, their language is drying up and becoming highly formulaic. This is associated with another Orwellian phenomenon, rewriting history, even for opinion polls.

As to politicians’ NewSpeak, they now regularly release some vision as if it were from the Oracle at Delphi.

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