On: Orwell: The Rewrite

[nathan_compton]

I think its a mischaracterization to say Orwell promotes it. The State in 1984 wishes to reach this stage, but the book does not really demonstrate that they are able to.

[dannyobrien → nathan_compton]

and indeed the appendix that explains Newspeak heavily implies that they failed in their project -- it's written in the past tense