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"Alternative Facts" Surge 1984 Book Sales
Topic Started: Jan 24 2017, 05:50 PM (235 Views)
CautionaryTales
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Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian drama 1984 have soared after Kellyanne Conway, adviser to the reality-TV-star-turned-president, Donald Trump, used the phrase “alternative facts” in an interview. As of Tuesday, the book was the sixth best-selling book on Amazon.

Comparisons were made with the term “newspeak” used in the 1949 novel, which was used to signal a fictional language that aims at eliminating personal thought and also “doublethink”. In the book Orwell writes that it “means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/24/george-orwell-1984-sales-surge-kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts?CMP=twt_gu


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and of course - the guy that requires censorship to get through the day starts this thread. My gut tells me CT would approve of the ministry of truth

Dat irony tho
Edited by estonianman, Jan 24 2017, 06:15 PM.
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