Concepts. 2:1

Doublespeak- Doublespeak is whenever you are forced by authority to believe two contradictory ideas. in 1984  the citizens are forced to believe whatever they are told, much of which contradicts other things that they are told. Today, in America, doublespeak still occurs. Micheal Kammen writes in his essay, "People of Paradox" he discusses how the american people somewhat participate in this doublespeak and how "American politicians must be all things to all people”.(Kammen 34) He talks about how Americans are fed different ideas and we sort of accept them because we are told to. Doublespeak is a way for a governmnet to have some type of control over the people, by forcing them to believe what they tell them. In no way is it as bad as in 1984, but it is still present in America. 

Newspeak- Newspeak is an invention by the governing body of Oceania that is created in order to remove thought and meaning from words. The thought behind it is to remove all of the thought associated with everyday life so that thoughtcrime is literally impossible. The government of Oceania is effectively trying to take all of the thought and creativity out of the citizens' lives. Oddly, sort of the same thing goes on in reality, but in reverse. I think that, accidentally, when we text we shorten our words and it does take the meaning from them. It reduces some of the conversations that we have to just a meaningless exchange of words, and much of the time what is said doesn't mean what it was intended to mean and that never ends well. We accidentally take the meaning out of our words, and this is one of the things that Oceania does to control people...

Paradox- In 1984, there are a few paradoxes that are actually the slogan of the party. "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and "Ignorance is Strength". A paradox is an idea that contradicts itself in a weird way. In the novel, "War is Peace" is the Party's way of making the citizens believe that only through war can the country be at peace. There are examples of paradoxes in everyday life that are becoming bigger and bigger parts of life. We are not forced to believe them however, but we choose to sometimes. That seems to be a theme throughout America, we choose to do things that others are forced to do as a method of their government to control them.