Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.
                                                                          
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orwell wrote that in 1948, and i came here in 1984. just an arbitrary number. an inversion. i was an invert. i'm still an invert. newspeak is now counterspeach. they don't read orwell i guess, or they want to be new. they aren't new, empire is so old, it's been devouring us for centuries. our host is vast, some of us survive, as some cells mysteriously resist cancer. it is clear now our empire is the cancer that devours the globe. and we are devoured by it, in spirit if not yet in body.

i thought, i'm no more american than the natives we conquered. i was born of conquest, conquered from the start, but that is the diseased nature of empire. it eats its own. one day it will collapse. but we won't be here to witness.