1984 is Fascist art. I know Orwell's heart was in the right place, and so much of the book is painfully true. But at core of the book is a lie that people are infinitely plastic and can be shaped absolutely by a system. Newspeak is the idea that if you do not create language for an idea, you cannot think the idea. It's the vanity of linguists that words are a gilded cage we can never escape. As a trans person, I know this is not true. I had no words or images for myself, and that made life much harder, but even so I still thought my way through the brick wall. #Trans #orwell1984 #fascism