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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Nineteen Eighty four

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key wards last month Who is big brother right The

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idea of big brother which is a government that's watching

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you a paternalistic state Which means the state that acts

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like a heavy handed parents telling you what to do

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and how to behave What is new speak you speak

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which is in this novel coined by the government It's

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the language that they allow people to speak and it's

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a word that you sometimes hear now when people are

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talking about like you know weapons of mass destruction when

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that became a part of the american vocabulary different types

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of jargon that we all start using that's sort of

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similar to new speak because it's another organization the government

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influencing what we say and by extension how we think

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about the world what is double think so part of

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double think is when people are able to hold two

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contradicting cots simultaneously And basically what this means is everyone

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is scared of committing what's called thought crime which is

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thinking things that they are not allowed to think in

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this society And so when the language of newspeak is

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perfected supposedly thought crime will be literally impossible No one

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will even be able to imagine anything that doesn't fit

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into this like idealized society Who is big brother What 00:01:51.779 --> [endTime] is new speak What is double think

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