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We are awash in ‘Newspeak’ And ‘Doublethink’
Kenneth Craycraft, OSV News
Friday, August 16, 2024
George Orwell’s prescient novel, “1984” was published 75 years ago. The book’s predictions of a dystopian future have never been more relevant than now, especially Orwell’s depictions of “Newspeak” and “Doublethink,” both of which are becoming the lingua franca of American political and public life. What better way to describe an ideology that declares men can become pregnant and women can possess a man’s reproductive organs?