Opinion | What George Orwell Can Teach Us About Power and Language Today
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 28, 2024
Dilution of meaning is familiar in a way that can make us feel comfortable, or even worse, comfortably righteous. That’s a feeling the university presidents, or their scriptwriters, might have hoped to invoke. The reliably available terms of disapproval and approval, genocide and patriotism, antisemitism and democracy, convey large scale and importance, but sometimes while avoiding the heavy cost of paying actual attention. The more important the word, the more . . .
