Orwellian Python is a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Africa and Asia. It usually appears when the following criteria are seen:
- The political manipulation of language, by obfuscation, e.g. WAR IS PEACE. Using language to obfuscate meaning or to reduce and eliminate ideas and their meanings that are deemed dangerous to its authority.
- Invasion of personal privacy, either directly physically or indirectly by surveillance.
- State control of its citizens' daily life, as in a "Big Brother" society.
- Official encouragement of policies contributing to the socio-economic disintegration of the family.
- The substitution of traditional religion with the adoration of state leaders and their Party.
- The encouragement of "doublethink," whereby the population must learn to embrace inconsistent concepts without dissent, e.g. giving up liberty for freedom. Similar terms used, are "doublespeak", and "newspeak".
- The revision of history in the favour of the State's interpretation of it.
- A dystopian future.
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