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These forms of political communication are not about lying becoming an instrument of politics. Because lying presupposes an awareness of truth. The novel's urgency and urgency is that it shows how it is no longer possible to distinguish between lies and truth. And if that happens, then democracy is at an end. Because there is no longer a common ground on which and from which to argue. Or as it says in the "Appendix: The Foundations of Newspeak": "The purpose of newspeak was not only to be a means of expression for the worldview and attitude of mind [...], but in making every other way of thinking a priori impossible. As soon as newspeak was accepted once and for all and oldspeak was forgotten, every heretical [...] Thought can be literally unthinkable, at least as far as it was based on words. The vocabulary was constructed in such a way that it allowed the party members to correctly and often very subtly express everything necessary, while it made the expression of any other views (even indirectly) impossible from the very beginning.<<

The destruction of memory is another goal of newspeak and doublethink. And we also meet them today. If, for example, the time of National Socialism in Germany is described as "bird shit" and the Holocaust memorial as a "monument of shame", as AfD politicians do, then the common memory on which our liberal legal order is built is to be destroyed. In its Articles 1 and 3, our Basic Law is largely based on the experience that human dignity can be attacked, that people can be excluded, exterminated because of their faith, religion, origin or name. And according to this party, this historical consciousness is to be destroyed so that the present can be reinterpreted and reinterpreted. "He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past." By manipulating, distorting facts or the meaning of events, erasing memory.

Winston and Julia fight back against this with their own means. They conduct conversations on installments". They are trying to be amoral. To have sex, against the exerted listlessness. She had done it many a dozen times, and he wished it had been a hundred or a thousand times. Everything that indicated depravity always filled him with wild hope. Who knows? Maybe the party was completely rotten under the surface and the cult of self-denial was really just a delusion, behind which a devil was hiding?" Deception is the key word here. Because while Winston still indulges in a hope for another life in other circumstances, he has long been the subject of surveillance.

In 1984, there is no longer the one shared reality, but different universes of deception. This can also be observed today. The journalism researcher Gerret von Nordheim analyzed 80,000 tweets after the Munich rampage in July 2016, in which nine people were shot dead in a shopping center. There were two core tweets that determined the communication and formed clusters. The one cluster was determined by the Twitter communication of the people of Munich. The major media such as Tagesschau or Spiegel Online referred to their communication. The other cluster was a network of right-wing organizations and AfD politicians. The tweet with the largest reach in this cluster was: "Germany in the sights of Islamist terror! Now the German people must bleed for the mistakes of the Merkel government!" Both clusters had almost no connection with each other. There were closed, parallel worlds of interpretation.

This phenomenon is not new. And it existed long before the Internet. Even in our everyday life, we surround ourselves with people who tick like us. The friends we have usually have opinions and attitudes similar to ours. The reason is simple and easy to understand. It is simply exhausting to be constantly questioned or to have to apologize all the time. Thus, the taz is a newspaper of the left-liberal milieu, and most Greens read it. The >FAZ< is a bourgeois newspaper, and only a few Greens read it, let alone the > BILD<. But whatever newspaper - once printed, it does not answer. Even if you read a newspaper that is politically close to you, it will always have articles and aspects that are new to you, that challenge you. The Internet and social media are not only faster, but also more individual, even more customizable. And that makes the decisive difference. Through answers and retweets, users constantly confirm themselves, both in their judgments and in their prejudices. One's own worldview becomes an echo chamber, "a self-supporting parallel network that suffices for itself". The digital world is fragmenting society into user groups of high homogeneity. Within these groups, people are constantly confirming themselves in their judgments and prejudices. As a result, increasingly homogeneous milieus, different perceptions of reality are emerging. And a policy based on contradiction, which is authoritarian and illiberal, can make very clever use of this. In terms of structure, social media - Twitter and Facebook - do not tend to analytical debate, but to populist polemics, to the friend-enemy scheme. And because modern social media have such emotional power, because they appeal to the feelings in us and grab us especially with our negative feelings, with envy, hatred, jealousy, they are tools of manipulation. Although they are "social" in the sense that we can find, date and understand each other better through them, they are also socially selective. And the more firmly and firmly attached the worldview is in its own filter bubble and Twitter cloud, the more the social division is reinforced by social selection. As was well observed with the emergence of conspiracy theories during the corona crisis, there was only their own truth for the people who lived exclusively in their Internet worlds. And for such a socially selected society, there is no longer any place from which truth can be established. This is the Orwellian nightmare. Not the dispute about the right truth, not even the suppression of the dispute by state control, but that there is simply no awareness of dissenting opinions anymore. That you unconsciously "paint something in the dust on the table: 2 + 2 = 5".

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These forms of political communication are not about lying becoming an instrument of politics. Because lying presupposes an awareness of truth. The novel's urgency and urgency is that it shows how it is no longer possible to distinguish between lies and truth. And if that happens, then democracy is at an end. Because there is no longer a common ground on which and from which to argue. Or as it says in the "Appendix: The Foundations of Newspeak": "The purpose of newspeak was not only to be a means of expression for the worldview and attitude of mind [...], but in making every other way of thinking a priori impossible. As soon as newspeak was accepted once and for all and oldspeak was forgotten, every heretical [...] Thought can be literally unthinkable, at least as far as it was based on words. The vocabulary was constructed in such a way that it allowed the party members to correctly and often very subtly express everything necessary, while it made the expression of any other views (even indirectly) impossible from the very beginning.<<

The destruction of memory is another goal of newspeak and doublethink. And we also meet them today. If, for example, the time of National Socialism in Germany is described as "bird shit" and the Holocaust memorial as a "monument of shame", as AfD politicians do, then the common memory on which our liberal legal order is built is to be destroyed. In its Articles 1 and 3, our Basic Law is largely based on the experience that human dignity can be attacked, that people can be excluded, exterminated because of their faith, religion, origin or name. And according to this party, this historical consciousness is to be destroyed so that the present can be reinterpreted and reinterpreted. "He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past." By manipulating, distorting facts or the meaning of events, erasing memory.

Winston and Julia fight back against this with their own means. They conduct conversations on installments". They are trying to be amoral. To have sex, against the exerted listlessness. She had done it many a dozen times, and he wished it had been a hundred or a thousand times. Everything that indicated depravity always filled him with wild hope. Who knows? Maybe the party was completely rotten under the surface and the cult of self-denial was really just a delusion, behind which a devil was hiding?" Deception is the key word here. Because while Winston still indulges in a hope for another life in other circumstances, he has long been the subject of surveillance.

In 1984, there is no longer the one shared reality, but different universes of deception. This can also be observed today. The journalism researcher Gerret von Nordheim analyzed 80,000 tweets after the Munich rampage in July 2016, in which nine people were shot dead in a shopping center. There were two core tweets that determined the communication and formed clusters. The one cluster was determined by the Twitter communication of the people of Munich. The major media such as Tagesschau or Spiegel Online referred to their communication. The other cluster was a network of right-wing organizations and AfD politicians. The tweet with the largest reach in this cluster was: "Germany in the sights of Islamist terror! Now the German people must bleed for the mistakes of the Merkel government!" Both clusters had almost no connection with each other. There were closed, parallel worlds of interpretation.

This phenomenon is not new. And it existed long before the Internet. Even in our everyday life, we surround ourselves with people who tick like us. The friends we have usually have opinions and attitudes similar to ours. The reason is simple and easy to understand. It is simply exhausting to be constantly questioned or to have to apologize all the time. Thus, the taz is a newspaper of the left-liberal milieu, and most Greens read it. The >FAZ< is a bourgeois newspaper, and only a few Greens read it, let alone the > BILD<. But whatever newspaper - once printed, it does not answer. Even if you read a newspaper that is politically close to you, it will always have articles and aspects that are new to you, that challenge you. The Internet and social media are not only faster, but also more individual, even more customizable. And that makes the decisive difference. Through answers and retweets, users constantly confirm themselves, both in their judgments and in their prejudices. One's own worldview becomes an echo chamber, "a self-supporting parallel network that suffices for itself". The digital world is fragmenting society into user groups of high homogeneity. Within these groups, people are constantly confirming themselves in their judgments and prejudices. As a result, increasingly homogeneous milieus, different perceptions of reality are emerging. And a policy based on contradiction, which is authoritarian and illiberal, can make very clever use of this. In terms of structure, social media - Twitter and Facebook - do not tend to analytical debate, but to populist polemics, to the friend-enemy scheme. And because modern social media have such emotional power, because they appeal to the feelings in us and grab us especially with our negative feelings, with envy, hatred, jealousy, they are tools of manipulation. Although they are "social" in the sense that we can find, date and understand each other better through them, they are also socially selective. And the more firmly and firmly attached the worldview is in its own filter bubble and Twitter cloud, the more the social division is reinforced by social selection. As was well observed with the emergence of conspiracy theories during the corona crisis, there was only their own truth for the people who lived exclusively in their Internet worlds. And for such a socially selected society, there is no longer any place from which truth can be established. This is the Orwellian nightmare. Not the dispute about the right truth, not even the suppression of the dispute by state control, but that there is simply no awareness of dissenting opinions anymore. That you unconsciously "paint something in the dust on the table: 2 + 2 = 5".

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