• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    I remember how hard “undercover cops == secret police” rocked my sensibilities about authoritarianism’s Western form.

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      The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.

      1984 - Appendix, George Orwell