1984 changed the way I perceive language and culture permanently. The notion that if certain words no longer exist in the language, then the associated idea wil

1984 changed the way I perceive language and culture permanently. The notion that if certain words no longer exist in the language, then the associated idea will disappear from the culture was Earth-shaking to me. Another idea that book drove home was the power for the media and the utter control of your life a government can exert when it completely controls it.