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[People who quote Orwell should first read Orwell's "Politics and the English Language." Much of it is rather questionable, especially in regard to academic language-but the frightening commonality of resorting to opaque language as a misdirection for ruthlessness (what Orwell refers to as policies people are unwilling to defend on their own terms) can't help make one think of one's own attempted at justications.]