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

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The Up With Big Brother Quote Unquote Rebellion

Parsons I think is actually a more complicated case in some extent but what's interesting is that you could say that the down with big brother quote unquote rebellion is the same as saying I hate big brother and at the end of the book the last line of the book is you know he loved big brother. O'Brien makes a point of saying that the goal of the thought police is to destroy love to destroy love of parents children for parentsLove between man and man and love between man and woman only the only love can be for except for beloved big brother so there's a sense in which Dylan might be right that there's this in the same sense that there's black white and double

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