VLVL2 (1) "More is Less"  

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Jul 14 22:25:24 CDT 2003


on 15/7/03 1:12 PM, Dave Monroe at monrovius at yahoo.com wrote:

> Well, again, yr modernism, yr 1984, both/and ...

And, again, one more prominent, apt, contextually-pertinent than the other,
in my opinion.

> Doublespeak (not Orwell's coinage, by the way, but
> it's been used, and serves well here) IS the language
> of capitalism and its politics ...

Actually, in _1984_, it's the language of Stalinist totalitarianism.

best




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