people reference that book so goddamn often but almost never seem to get what was actually most important and frightening about it
the active destruction of language so that "even if there is rebellious spirit, there will be no words with which to communicate it".
Doublethink, most of all. The act of fervently believing false things, knowing full well they are false, and simultaneously denying that you know you're doing it. Even saying the term requires deploying it
