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If you’ve never read George Orwell’s 1984, you’re missing out on one positively Nostrodamic example of a predicted future accurately unfolding. From TVs that listen and watch (the Internet) to the pursuit of power for power’s sake, the 1949 novel that envisioned a future of perpetual warfare and omnipresent government surveillance has materialized in large part. With “negative yields,” confirmation has arrived that we the people have become complacent with modern doublespeak to the point of indifference, which equates in essence to the conformity enforced in the novel.

Look at this statement from a Bloomberg article early this week:

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“Consider that Swiss debt maturing in almost 50 years yields around zero, or that Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer products maker, has securities due in 2020 yielding negative 0.19 per cent.”

What it should say, if we weren’t being subjected to a mainstream media-enforced legitimizing effect, is “Consider that Swiss debt maturing in almost 50 years pays nothing, or that Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer products maker, has securities due in 2020 that cost the lender 0.19 per cent.”