Reply #28: Orwell [View All]

[forgethell]

put it best in "1984".

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to say by analogy. What does the printing press vs. transcribing by hand have to do with an argument? The books would say the same thing in either format. What does the washing by machine have to do with anything?

Regardless of how the book describes itself, it is what it is, which is the advocation of, not changing the ideas, but changing the words that refer to them in the hope of making them more palatable to the voting public. This is an alternative, though not one that will work, to either changing the ideas themselves, or improving the justification for those ideas.

As for irresponsibility, well I consider my opinion to be pretty well informed. But if everybody that knew nothing about a subject just kept their opinions to themselves, DU would die in a week, as would a number of other blogs. Probably all of them,in fact.