Newspeak: The War For Your Mind
I’m sure we’re all familiar with Orwellian Newspeak as a political tool. Many blame the president’s “obvious” lack of intelligence as the cause. As if his fluency of Newspeak is at all unintentional.
When we consider that Newspeak is quite simply the abolition of all shades of gray in our language, all its meaning. We understand the power of creating a new society of drones and the attractiveness of this concept on behalf of the ruling elite. It shouldn’t be difficult to see the trend already. God-fearing upstanding citizens versus Godless terrorists. The Evil-doers against the true and free.
The underlying concept and its uses can be tidily summarized by assuming the following:
“The underlying theory of Newspeak is that if something can’t be said, then it can’t be thought” source
The real question is what we intend to do about it. There are some who claim that establishing is beyond the means of solely the government or a governing body. But personally, I lost all skepticism when I saw Bush employ Newspeak and influence millions. On the one hand you have dates, war, statistics, facts and very real tragedy, contrasted by the grunting and barking of people mumbling meaningless mantras. For instance:
Support the troops!
The allegation that distrusting the current “road-map” in Iraq is somehow unsupportive. The reality is troops want out. So if you wish to support them, stop sending them teddy-bears and get them out of there. There are many such phrases that serve to obscure reality. Freedom in Iraq, stay the course, victory in Iraq e.t.c, ad nauseum.
Becoming aware of what we are becoming is the first step. Opposing that which we have become is the second.
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I’m aware this article is somewhat unrelated and a little harsher than usual. But bear with me