Came across this quote from 1984 in a short piece of Mark Steyn's. A more complete, yet succinct, description of the propagandist goal of the leftist thugs who breed the decay of the University would be hard to find. I've not read that book since, in fact, 1984. It's high time for another read. If, for no other reason, as a Manual of Current Praxis.
"CRIMESTOP means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc*, and of being bored and repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
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The current locution meaning crimestop is "you don't want to go there."
yup, JJ. That Orwell character was prescient in ways I don't think he could ever have imagined.
One thing he got wrong is missing that we would be using ghetto language for academic/political correctness.
Yeah, the Limey Mind has its limits. That piker, Burgess, for example, he'd have Tyson chewing off Holyfield's ear to the Eroica
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