Only writing can be rubbed out. But Newspeak will remove all traces of individuality. Its determining model will be the printed or electronic word.
When I think far into the future of this reality, I agree that it'll erase individuality and make people very robotic. I also wonder if people will search for words to describe what they are feeling, or if they won't because it doesn't exist??
“Genetics alone assures that children learn to talk simply through exposure to spoken language, but all readers need a written alphabet or its equivalent in nonalphabetic language.”10 Speech has the special quali-ties of being: invisible, since we can’t see sounds, and ephemeral, since it is extinguished as soon as it is uttered. But in spite of its immaterial-ity, it is an essential, constitutive element of our individual minds and bodies.
This part is interesting because in The Stand (Zoe mentioned Yeats' poem is in it, so I started watching it), one episode revolves around spoken language. It foreshadowed two characters who are destined to be together, but can't communicate because of disabilities that they both have. I also find it amazing how every dystopian themed literature we have looked at connects to each other well.
Since I began the pilot study in 2010 and collected data through 2016, some things have changed.
Have things changed drastically since 2016 or is it repetitively the same?
What came back from that simple, seemingly innocuous search was again nothing short of shocking: with the girls just a few feet away giggling and snorting at their own joke
It's sad that this seemed not shocking because people of colour deserve more recognition for their accomplishments and achievements. I just did a google search, and I'm glad to see that there's more music, news articals, and a magazine called "Black Girls Magazine" rather than pornographic media... but google can still do better.
Good Omens (1990)
I'm surprised that this is the newest date out of the books and movies that Lynskey has mentioned because the poem does feel relevant to every fearful event. I think that there will another great movie or novel to quote it soon!
If it feels especially potent now, perhaps it is because we have become painfully accustomed to the idea that progress is fragile and it is all too easy to fall back.
Or is it because our progress is only an illusion?
It was impossible, in spite of the endless arrests and confessions and executions, to be sure that the Brotherhood 19
I find this mirroring today's society with online media. It's very hard not to believe one side of a story that's posted online because of algorithms presenting people with what they like and look at the most.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
From this excerpt I took away that breaking the rules, committing a sin, provides the best inspiration for writing/art because it's a forbidden subject that's intriguing and new.