mbadaa.blogg.se - Other books by the author of nineteen eighty four

George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts one of the most famous dystopias in world literature.

More than half a century after the publication of his seminal work, publicists, demagogues, spin doctors, advertisers and journalists have turned the tools of Orwell’s dystopia into the background noise of our modern lives. He hoped that such clarity would aid public discourse and reveal the misdeeds of scoundrels. Orwell, also the author of Animal Farm, was a tireless advocate of simple and clear language.

Just as the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four manipulates language to manipulate thought and changes history to change reality, it engages in the same tricks that many current politicians and polemicists use to advance their careers as they warp ordinary people’s perceptions of the world. English novelist George Orwell (1903–1950) would have recognized and condemned such uses of language to misdirect, confuse and misinform.

In the modern world, “worker empowerment” can mean being fired from a job, “collateral damage” can mean war that kills innocent people and “externalities” can mean making someone else clean up the mess.