American Owellianism: Defeat is Defense; Freedom is Slavery; Diversity is Strength

Gun Watch ^ | 6 July, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

George Orwell's 1984 had three slogans that were repeated constantly.  They were counter factual, they showed that people were repeatedly told and were expected to believe the most outrageous, anti-rational, contradictory lies in order to inculcate obedience.

The same is true in the United States of today.  Political Correctness is what we are expected to believe without any rational examination.  We are expected to believe direct contradictions as a matter of public policy.  The irrational assumptions of that policy may not be challenged. We are constantly lied to and expected to accept the lies. I posit that Orwell's three slogans have been changed for the reality of American politics.  These are the three slogans that epitomize the American version of 1984:

Defeat is Defense

Freedom is Racism

Diversity is Strength

We are told that each defeat we suffer is necessary for our defense. Defeat is Defense.

We are told that we are not free to say certain things.  To think certain thoughts, to associate or not associate with those we choose.  We are not allowed to follow deeply held, long term religious beliefs.  To exercise this freedom is said to be racist.  The unstated, but obvious inference is that Freedom is Racism.

We are told over and over that accepting more and more poor, uneducated people from more and more cultures actively hostile to our own, somehow (unexplained) strengthens us.  Diversity is strength.

Defeat is Defense

Freedom is Racism

Diversity is Strength

It could not be more clear if these slogans were printed below every television broadcast and every leftist site on the Internet.  They are taught in the universities and in the common schools.  They are required attitudes in the entertainment industry. The have been and are constantly being driven into our culture and consciousness.

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[marktwain]

Orwell was ahead of his time, but the time line was off. It may be that the Internet is saving us.

[Sasparilla]

And with the political elite,
GUILT IS INNOCENCE.

[PROCON]

Orwell was a genius.

And judging from today's FBI declaration:

" All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ... "

[marktwain]

Absolutely correct.

[BurrOh]

Thanks for the link!

[MarkL]

PC warriors demand “NewSpeak.”

Mark

[Peter ODonnell]

Double plus unguilty.

Except for freely broadcasting a variety of national secrets and other classified information, the Model Citizen did nothing wrong, that is to say, nothing ungood.

Some are so correct that they cannot break a law. The mere fact of appearing to break a law proves only one thing, the weak observational skills of the onlooker. Double plus ungood skills. To the camps.

[Awgie]

Unity is strength, Diversity is chaos.

[Awgie]

Unity is strength, Diversity is chaos.

[Altura Ct.]

We have seen the enemy...

Orwell was so right.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks marktwain.

• Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What’s Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]

  Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.