I still don't see your point, however, you are right, 1984 by far is not just about technological omnipresent surveillance, but other schemes of totalitarian power, too. Personally, I always remember that mind control by language control thing. And the general effect that the outside censors get internalised and moved into the minds of the subjects, so that they censor themselves, and then truly love Big Brother. Fully internalized censorship is the best tool of dicatorship to secure its power, that can be imagined.

I doubt that many people are aware how massively this is being used already today, considering the hostility and disbelief I often meet when attacking the political parties, genderism or neo-feminism, do-gooderism or hysterically derailed environmentalism. Or the Germans' most preferred emotional state: general "Angst". Just that it does not get implanted by torture, but in softer, alleged morally superior ways and establishing the monopoly for "Deutungshoheit" in the media and the education sector.

Deutungshoheit = interpretational sovereignty or prerogative of interpretation

@Sky
Why do you keep putting German words into your texts when responding to English speakers? They can't understand them and if you couldn't find a proper translation while knowing what you were looking for how shall they find one when they don't even know what they are looking for.:hmm2:
It doesn't add anything to your post if the other side has no clue what you were trying to say.;)

That has crossed my mind several times in the psat so, come on Sky, stop being a 'slacker' :know:

I did not know how to put it, and the dictionaries (2) I use did not had the word. Some non-Germans nevertheless understand German, so for some it still is a gain.

And some words I use because I know for sure that they already have found entry into contemporary English (most likely because English knows no equivalent terms). Zeitgeist, for example.

Beyond that I use a phrase-dictionary, and Google's translator-bot.

And to be fair: sometimes I just simply forget to include a translation afterwards.

Honestly, I am more entitled to being criticised for my terrible typing discipline, considering the overwhelming number of typos that I sometimes produce and am too lazy to sort out...

I usually use http://www.dict.cc/
It's very good.:yeah:
(the above translations are from it as I had no idea what Deutungshoheit is in English either.:D)

I think that "the brave new world" is closer to truth than the 1984.

*Fixed that for you*
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