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> Is war also peace

Si vis pacem, para bellum

> freedom also slavery

Total freedom for one includes their ability to enslave others.

My point is, you’re presenting false dichotomies to justify another (the political and the non-political).




Is that what I'm doing? I thought I was making an Orwell reference to imply that a peculiar kind of very public gaslighting he warned about is not confined to the slogans of 1984's Party.




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