In 1984 the government had a ministry of truth was what they called it. Its sole job was to
Erase history that didn't fit the narrative.
Which most people forget was the rewrite and condense the language. "newspeak" the reasoning was that to limit words in the vocabulary and condense everything you could essentially limit human thoughts and desires and make domination more complete. Making things fluid and infinite is in a way making things meaningless and another way of erasing.
In 1984 the government had a ministry of truth was what they called it. Its sole job was to
Erase history that didn't fit the narrative.
Which most people forget was the rewrite and condense the language. "newspeak" the reasoning was that to limit words in the vocabulary and condense everything you could essentially limit human thoughts and desires and make domination more complete. Making things fluid and infinite is in a way making things meaningless and another way of erasing.
Succinctly, newspeak was developed to make thoughtcrime impossible.
Rereading 1984 this year its striking how non-senseicle things in the original book. Like eliminating words and shrinking the dictionary are now real.