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buzzwords are used to shut down wrongthink and manipulate opinions
the culture of shaming gets pushed hard on here to keep us from ever learning anything

A lot of people miss out on why Orwell focuses on the themes that he does, such as the distortion of the language framework that enables the discernment of truth. Totalitarian regimes collapse unless they can subvert the action of thinking to make resistance impossible. Orwell's only crime is that he did not consider all of the various ways in which human agency can be destroyed by slavish degeneracy.