1984 22 Years Later

Quote of the day:
“Never try to hug your rabbit; most don’t like it.”
--Steve Dale

Proposed bumper sticker of the day:
“Too cool for drool.”

Quote of the day no. 2:
“Like many ambitious people, I had developed a dependence on adrenaline. I could get so much done when my anxiety was in the red zone that I learned to live right on the edge of panic, in that optimum zone between alarm and collapse.”
--Barbara Brown Taylor

Political quote of the day:
“The language of American politics increasingly resembles an Orwellian monologue.”
--Christopher Lasch

And we have adapted to (and perhaps accepted) this “Orwellian monologue.” We are accustomed to ballot propositions on which a “no” vote actually means “yes” and politicians who say one thing to one audience and its seeming opposite to a different audience hours later. It’s part of the normal course of things, we say. Apparently it was not the normal course of things when George Orwell wrote "1984" and coined the term “doublespeak.”

His book portrayed a world in which doublespeak was the norm and no one seemed to mind. Everywhere there were declarations that up was down and good was bad and pain was pleasure.

And no one seemed to mind.