Comment by jjoonathan
4 years ago
Right, but it's funny how these things tend to correlate. For example, the US Department of War became the US Department of Defense in 1949, arguably around the time when its primary business switched from Defense to War.
Not uncoincidentally this was the year 1984 was published, and Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, so..
"Hilariously", thirty years later, the company that would go on to put a camera in everyone's living room and pocket ran this commercial: https://vimeo.com/312710573
spot on .. I'm afraid