George Orwells '1984' and 'The Ministry of Truth" has never been more true than it is right now. Lets take a moment to reflect.

45  2016-12-06 by [deleted]

"The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty." (1.1.8)

"It's a beautiful thing, the Destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word, which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well – better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.'s idea originally, of course," he added as an afterthought. (1.5.23, Syme)

http://www.shmoop.com/1984/language-communication-quotes.html

11 comments

Welcome to Western "Democracy". The ministry of truth has been around for at least 60 years.

You are correct. We may currently be witnessing its final coup de grace of the first amendment though.

Based on?? The modern day ministry of truth is the DNC and MSM. Does anyone in this sub SERIOUSLY think the US military is going to fight against riots in the streets? They will be out there with us.

Roughly half will roughly half won't?...idk what would happen in a situation like that. How can you say the ministry of truth has been around for 60 years but hasn't had an effect on service members as well?

I still have some faith in everyday Americans. I know they have been indoctrinated..

That last quote is terrifying.

I know right? When I was in high school a few years ago they were just starting to tell teachers not to cover it anymore. I will always be greatful that my teacher told us this and had us read it anyway because it was "very important". Needless to say he lost his job two years later... I read it again recently and it felt more realistic, and terrifying than ever.

Free link to 1984 compliments of archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/Orwell1984preywo

Very interesting picture. If say both are coming true

CTR= Hillary's own personal Ministry of Truth