Orwellian Doubletalk and Modern "Alternative Facts"....

George Orwell... Author, Journalist (1903–1950)

 
George Orwell is best known for two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four...

•  Animal Farm (1945) was an anti-dictatorship satire in a pastoral setting featuring two pigs as its main protagonists - the dictator and his opponent...
• In 1949, Orwell published another masterwork, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984 in later editions).                                                             The setting of 1984 is a dystopia: an imagined world that is far worse than our own, as opposed to a utopia, which is an ideal place or state.                   Other dystopian novels include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Orwell's own Animal Farm.                                                                                                                                       Suggestion... I grew up with these novels... They were part of our discussions and intellectual growth... We passionately discussed and argued about them... It was the 80's and the cafe-trottiors in Europe were saturated with the new vision of the youth... our discussions were boisterous and loud... The new ideas and the wine were just part of us... I definitely wish you read these too... Form your own book club and read and discuss... The NEW TIMES and the NEW REALITY beg for it...                                                                                                                                                   When George Orwell wrote 1984, the year that gives the book its title was still almost 40 years in the future. Some of the things Orwell imagined that would come to pass were the telescreen, a TV that observes those who are watching it, and a world consisting of three megastates rather than hundreds of countries. In the novel, the country of Eastasia apparently consists of China and its satellite nations; Eurasia is Russia ( at the time the Soviet Union); and Oceania comprises the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies.                                                                         Another of Orwell's creations for 1984 is Newspeak, a form of English that the book's totalitarian government utilizes to discourage free thinking. Orwell believed that, without a word or words to express an idea, the idea itself was impossible to conceive and retain. Thus Newspeak has eliminated the word "bad," replacing it with the less-harsh "ungood." The author's point was that government can control us through the words.                                                                                                                                                                                 

This bleak vision of the world divided into three oppressive nations stirred up controversy among reviewers, who found this fictional future too despairing. But it looks like the future has arrived...
The doublethink and doubletalk have been transformed to the modern day "Alternative facts"...
In the novel, Orwell gave readers a glimpse into what would happen if the government controlled every detail of a person's life, down to their own private thoughts.

Alternative Facts...

Facts are facts and their cannot be the 

fact and its alternate fact...

I just feel that 1984 has arrived... 

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1984 has arrived...

The Big Brother watches us... on the borders... 

on the city streets... they eavesdrop... their eyes are 

everywhere and their surveillance pervasive... 

Doublethought  and doublespeack of the 1984 are the 

"Alternate facts"... of the new rulers...

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In the French Revolution when the peasants were 

demonstrating for bread because they were hungry... 

a princess told them to eat cakes...

Indeed... "Let them eat cakes..." she said...

And just the other day another lady told us that she 

has "alternative facts..."

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At times I am full of hope... I see the people in the streets... in the squares and I become hopeful... and then I listen to the rhetoric of the rulers... their bellicose  fury depresses me... I hear their chants of "alternative facts"... and I remember my younger days in the cafe-trottoirs of Europe discussing 1984... and the rest...

After all,

"Alternative facts"... are not facts... 

It is just the doubletalk of the rich and the powerful... 

Newspeak is the language of Oceania, a totalitarian state portrayed in the novel  Nineteen Eight-four, published in 1949), by George Orwell... Newspeak... doubletalk... double thing...  was created to meet the ideological needs of the ruling Party. Newspeak is a controlled language designed to limit freedom of thought, by eliminating political concepts — free will, self-expression, personal individuality, peace, etc. — that are ideological threats to the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who classified such concepts as forms of thought crime, for contradicting the orthodoxy of the ruling party... and the ideology of the state... By the invention of "alternative facts" we have crossed  in modern 1984...