Orwell’s Worst Nightmare Is Coming True

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[–]kazenmusic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A good comment that illustrates the current problem, but also has implications for entire languages. I've sometimes mused about how the fact I speak only English has limited my experience of the world's cultures: I'm sure there are many words in other languages that don't have corresponding English terms.

I believe we are limited even by the language we have even without these doomed attempts to make us stupid by forbidding concepts. My guess is humor will rush to fill the gap, once the shock of being programmed like this fades a bit...i.e. Russian Cold War jokes.

How very sad that we need them now. "Those who cannot learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."

[–]SundogsPlace 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

11 Beautiful Japanese Words That Don't Exist In English https://www.theodysseyonline.com/11-beautiful-untranslatable-japanese-words

Every time they pull down a Confederate statue or change the name of a street they're hiding and changing history. And yes we'll be doomed to repeat some really nasty history since our history is being erased before our eyes.

[–]kazenmusic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Isn't it amazing how brazen it is. You would think we were all asleep.