Il linguaggio per il potere è un’arma, riesce a colpire e a penetrare più di ogni altro strumento, si presta a falsificazioni, mutamenti e indottrinamento. Le parole cambiano di significato ed è utile quindi rimanere sempre aggiornati comprando le ultime edizioni del dizionario della neolingua
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.’(1984 – Orwell)
“Everybody wants power,” he said. “Power in some form or other. The sort of power you hanker for is literary power. Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, moulding them, torturing them to obey you. But I divagate.”(Huxley – Come Yellow)
“Non ti è sfuggito, credo, che i ragazzi, non appena assaggiano la dialettica, la usano come un gioco per contraddire sempre, e imitando quelli che confutano finiscono per farlo essi stessi, godendo come cagnolini di tirare e mordere con la parola chi di volta in volta si
trova vicino a loro.”(Platone – Repubblica)
