I have finished a rereading of Nineteen Eighty Four and whilst I still find it a tedious slog, it does contain some imaginative, but morally corrupt, concepts to overcome democracy. When thinking about Double Speak in the time of Trump, it occurred to me that Triple Gestures would make a good game for children or the White House advisers. Instead of Rock (fist), Paper (flat hand), Scissors (two fingers) it could be renamed War, Peace, Trump. Obviously two fingers would be Trump, fist would be War and flat hand would be Peace.
Trump beats Peace, War beats Trump and Peace beats War. Even the obsequious advisers in the White House might be able to explain this to Trump, although whether he could explain it to Netanyahu might be a stretch. And the game could be sponsored by those clever Norwegians who decide the Nobel Prize.
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