The Whole Aim Of Newspeak Is To Narrow The Range Of Thought

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.

Colm Keena, the journalist and less-than-sympathetic biographer of Gerry Adams, has an article in the Irish Times newspaper examining the Sinn Féin leader and tangentially the origins of the conflict in the north-east of Ireland. It reads like this:

“Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism. Militant nationalism.

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Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate. Sinn Féin eradicate.”

Insightful, no?

2 comments on “The Whole Aim Of Newspeak Is To Narrow The Range Of Thought”

Dara O Rourke

June 11, 2014

Cad is bhrí sin?

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Tom

June 12, 2014

“What struck me while working on the book, and still seems to me to be a key observation, is the way the movement for civil rights in Northern Ireland, encouraged as it was by other such movements around the world targeting oppression, became so particularly violent.

“The reason for this, I decided, lay in the fact that Adams, and others like him steeped in the culture of Irish republicanism, were of the view from the start that the civil rights question in Northern Ireland would quickly become the national question.”

Now it can be told: the civil rights marchers at Burntollet bridge were attached by off-duty B Specials because Gerry Adams thought the civil rights and national questions were linked. Funny, no one seemed to think so at the time.

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