unthinkable thoughts

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> I don't think authorship is ever definitively attributed. 

Right. 

I was thinking on how we might give old tommy a way out of this essay.
Not that it's shitty, but he does make a few mistakes that are so very
embarrassing. he could have stuck it up on the fridge and asked  his
Family & Friends to read it over for him or something. any way, as to
newspeak, it's possible  that tommy might not be trivializing orwell's
concerns about language, but only having a bit of fun. 

tommy has a strange sense of humor and he's very playful. in fact he
kinda reminds me of a clown sometimes, like one of those clowns that
juggles balls and lemons and hoops and you're just sitting cross-legged
on the street  with the kids with a smile on your face when he starts
tossing fire sticks and you glance over at his bag of things to be
juggled and notice the chain saws and battle axes and grab the kids and
head off to Guns R US. 



Something unfunny about clowns you know. 


orwell got it wrong. why worry about orwellian language, dude? like the
department of defense. that's kinda like naming a cartoon character
butt-head. the act of naming stood on its butt. 

ha ha good joke, 

but orwell's paranoia about language was isn't groundless. although
language is way tooo crazy for scheming politicians (Patriot act I and
Patriot Act II, what an imagination, hmm?) and propagandists,  to
control,  they try and with something like the internet or TV  people
can flood our discussions with newspeak that acts as a subtle form of
ideological control because the vocabulary of our discourse is subject
to a neutralizing game. 



here, newspeak is oldspeak deliberately distorted and designed to ensure
political enslavement of those who use it. it's aim is to prevent
thought not approved by the party of Pynchon. such thoughts,  should be
unthinkable here. 

But we can't help it. 

We have free minds. And while some may say we have nothing but disdain
for the god man author they love with all their hearts and souls, we
know better. 

Don't we.