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Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One)

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The Inner Versus the Outer Party

Inksok and the respective governments in these other two countries decide you know to freeze the process that we're not going to let the middle grow. So they have to develop defense mechanisms for our current high status so that it'll never switch up again. That's what this entire creation of newspeak insistence on dominating the minds of it's actually just the middle class. The only thing important is to keep them down is to keep the economic prosperity that is given by machines like well that should per our new work episode make it so the mass of people don't live in toil anymore. If that happened that would get rid of inequality and threaten the people in power so the people inPower can

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