<\/a> nie. Weet hy dan nie hy moet homself herprogrammeer nie?! Dit maak O\u2019Brien radeloos.<\/p>\n\u201cOnthou jy,\u201d gaan hy aan, \u201cjy\u2019t in jou dagboek geskryf, \u2018Vryheid is die vryheid om te s\u00ea twee plus twee is gelyk aan vier\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJa,\u201d s\u00ea Winston.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien hou sy linkerhand op, die rugkant na Winston, met die duim na binne en die vier vingers uitgestrek.<\/p>\n
\u201cHoeveel vingers hou ek op, Winston?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEn as die Party s\u00ea dis nie vier nie maar vyf \u2013 hoeveel dan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier.\u201d<\/p>\n
Die woord eindig in ‘n pynkreet\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cHoeveel vingers, Winston?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoeveel vingers, Winston?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoeveel vingers, Winston?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier! Vier! Wat kan ek anders s\u00ea? Vier!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoeveel vingers, Winston?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier! Hou op, hou op! Hoe kan jy aangaan? Vier! Vier!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHoeveel vingers, Winston?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVyf! Vyf! Vyf!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNee, Winston, dis hopeloos. Jy lieg. Jy dink nog steeds daar is vier. Hoeveel vingers, asseblief?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVier! Vyf! Vier! Net wat jy wil. Hou net op, hou net op met die pyn!\u201d<\/p>\n
Dit klink absurd. Dis soos Eric Blair alias George Orwell dit bedoel het. Absurd. Ons leef in `n soortgelyke absurde kultuur. Absurd en treurig. So treurig dat my keel daarvan toetrek. Voor 1949 het 1984 ver geklink, wat nog te s\u00ea 1994 of 2014 …<\/p>\n
Of wat dit betref 2021…<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Elma Potgieter (9 Januarie 2021)<\/p>\n
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Vryheid van spraak is `n mite. Waarom? Ek weet nie. Wat ek wel weet. Daar bestaan `n stille verstandhouding1 onder \u201cingeligtes\u201d dat alle uitsprake sal voldoen aan die ongeskrewe re\u00ebls van die aanvaarde algemene politiek-sosiale tendens van die tyd. At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618062,"featured_media":47772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25107,10],"tags":[12998,2878,7533,7321,5907],"class_list":["post-47771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elma-potgieter","category-rubrieke","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-sensuur","tag-spraakvryheid","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/618062"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47773,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771\/revisions\/47773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}