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

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The Power of Intimacy and Privacy

I think what we want to talk about in the second half of this as well is whether this idea of the reason that you have whether pure power is realistically a motivation for all of this and and that type of thing. Winston puts this very positive spin on it he thinks of it as this bright future where people have the freedom to say two plus two equals four when in fact it's the torture room and it's surveillance and it's all of that stuff. It's the pen opt to count on steroids right but I don't need that at all so any any thoughts to conclude the setup here of the society or any other details that we've left out or well stuff?

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