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Orwell said language is often used to dress up shabby thoughts, a tool of evasion rather than communication.
“[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
![Orwell said language is often used to dress up shabby thoughts, a tool of evasion rather than communication.“[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D573HiKX4AEXxms.jpg "Orwell said language is often used to dress up shabby thoughts, a tool of evasion rather than communication.“[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”")
“[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
Language is dominated by technical “bureaucratese,” academic-speak, and politically correct. It inflates flimsy ideas.
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Here's Bernie Sanders dancing...
"History stopped in 1936” – George Orwell, Looking back on the Spanish War
"I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors...
"I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors...
...and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened"
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Here's Theresa May dancing
The stoic Seneca wrote "In the case of many men, their vices, being powerless, escape notice; although, as soon as the persons in question have become satisfied with their own strength, the vices will be no less daring than those which prosperity has already disclosed...
...These men simply lack the means whereby they may unfold their wickedness"
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Here's Macron dancing
Seneca also wrote in Letters to Lucilius - #3
"Therefore, you should note the following saying, taken from my reading in Pomponius: “Some men shrink into dark corners, to such a degree that they see darkly by day.”
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"Therefore, you should note the following saying, taken from my reading in Pomponius: “Some men shrink into dark corners, to such a degree that they see darkly by day.”
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We have no history before 2015.
We are in year 2 AT
(After Trump)
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We are in year 2 AT
(After Trump)
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Seneca: "In like manner you should rebuke these two kinds of men, – both those who always lack repose, and those who are always in repose.'
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Here's Putin fishing
Everything Orwell said.
When there's no words left, there's only this
When there's no words left, there's only this
