Underpinning Orwell’s most chilling dystopian vision was the belief that controlling what people say is half way to controlling what they think. That if enough people are forced to say something they know to be false for long enough, they will eventually accept it as true – in much the same way that if you make the sheep at the front of the flock jump over a stick, the sheep behind them will continue to jump even after you have removed the stick.
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