Now the union's assistant general secretary is insisting that the sacking has nothing to do with Mr Embery's stance, in
doublethink worthy of Big Brother.
Now the assistant general secretary of the FBU is insisting that the sacking has nothing to do with Mr Embery's stance, in
doublethink worthy ofBig Brother.
Today, as in the case of Shakespeare, hundreds of millions of people mouth Orwell's coinages and catch-phrases, such as "Big Brother" and "
doublethink"--including his name as proper adjective, "Orwellian" (i.e., nightmarish, oppressive).
The match against India also demonstrated classic
doublethink on the part of Sarfaraz.
"Newspeak" and "
doublethink" go together in a sense.
He was the scourge of totalitarianism and introduced the world to the terms Big Brother, Newspeak,
Doublethink and the Ministry of Truth.
THE Sindh government's attitude towards the health sector is that of
doublethink a term coined by renowned writer George Orwell.
From "Untold," her story has become "Overtold" leading to a tendency for commentators to ridicule "Imelda Marcos" (the lead female role) all the melodrama and "
doublethink" make it so convenient to dismiss her and her family's power plays as part of an Orientalist narrative in which our society is a mere pastiche for entertainment.
But his argument is pure Orwellian
doublethink. Like Henry Ford who joked the public could have any colour of car they wanted as long as it was black, Jack Rough believes, you can have any opinion you like as long as you don't express it.
Finally, "Fallout" turns to the toxic legacies of nuclear technology: the emerging dilemmas over handling its waste and decommissioning of the great radioactive structures of the nuclear age, and the fearful
doublethink over the world's growing stockpiles of plutonium, the most lethal and ubiquitous product of nuclear technologies.
In his novel 1984, Newspeak, the language of the fictional society Oceania, is full of "
doublethink"--slogans such as "War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength." In the appendix, "The Principles of Newspeak," Orwell explores the power of the structures and vocabulary of language to alter consciousness, to make "heretical thoughts" "literally unthinkable." In this way, he tells us that we must all be vigilant in seeking the truth behind obfuscation and euphemism.