‘It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought … should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.’
It might seem cliché to reference Orwell, whose novels are predictably brought up in many a conversation about the woes of contemporary culture.
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