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A Boring Dystopia

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Seriously when did we branch to an alternative timeline?

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[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 52 points 2 months ago

it seems like just a stupid childish petty bullshit, and it is, but it's really a textbook example of fascism taking total control of every possible aspect of artistic expression. first they got rid of DEI altogether, then started banning certain words ("climate," etc.), and now you're not even allowed to choose what font to use.

'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten...Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller....How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.'

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Literally only because it was done in the Biden administration to help readability.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But Comic Sans and Papyrus are fine?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

I only use dingbats now.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

This country has become such a joke.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't they ever accidentally even make a good change? I'm a big fan of Calibri. It was maybe the only good thing to come out of Vista. It's very comfortable to read and works as both a professional and casual look. I guess if anything hopefully this will empower it as the font of the resistance. When I get around to it, I'm going g to see if I can force my WordPress site to web font Calibri.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

This! The font is just good regardless of vision impairment. They deprive themselves of comfort for the sake of making someone else more miserable.