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No, on the contrary, I cannot protest at all...if I do, then this is a "psychological trick"...if I make a convincing case, then it's a "psychological trick"...if I attempt to write sufficient to prove otherwise, then it's "too much" and everyone's "programmed" not to read "too much" automatically (and I can't go into the details of how that could be - I just wrote a long reply discussing it but it was "too long" so I can't post it or you won't read it - because this would be "too much" as well)...the topic is inherently not simple - proving that you're all being locked into a stunted, dwarfish "NoSpeak" NewSpeak is NOT a small topic and providing the justification and circumstantial evidence that leads one to this conclusion (as, rightly, you wouldn't give such an accusation time-of-day without something to demonstrate where this is coming from and why I might say it) - that I cannot reduce it to 3 or 4 "soundbite" sentences...such reduction would compromise the message itself (yeah, you could summarise the entire New Testament message in one word: "Love" but the amount of details lost - it's a big book - is absurd: Such a "shortcut" is so stunted, it makes the journey itself pointless)...

I simply cannot win unless someone out there "gives me a break" for five minutes to "break the rules" sufficiently...but you won't...and, even if you did, then it would be deemed a "psychological trick", so no-one would pay attention anyway...

The cage they've built for us slaves is impregnable...because they've convinced us to incarcerate ourselves...prevent our own freedom by creating an illusion of some big "bogeyman" on the outside that we content ourselves with the "safety" of remaining in the cage...by feeding our "egoes" with "certificates" and personalising it...so, if I try to challenge any of it, then I'm challenging you directly...you won't put up with that, so - BANG! - Orwell's prediction becomes utterly true...and I end the discussion (there's no way I can continue, so I'm forced to call it a day) on the very same point I began:

"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is buttumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is "not done"... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals." George Orwell

"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell? Blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground... ...what have we found?

The same old fears

Wish you were here."

"Wish you were here", Pink Floyd

Beth :)