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Month: April 2013

Ignorance is Strength

On 08/04/201329/03/2019 By K J GIn Uncategorized3 Comments

George Orwell’s seminal work, 1984, is robust in its grinding misery. Relentless in its vision of a society bereft of any hope. None more so than Orwell’s “double-speak” and Big Brother’s slogans to be found on letter-heads, posters, newspapers: War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, Ignorance is Strength.  In Winston’s world it is not knowledge that …

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