The point of logocide is to cripple the ability of the people to think independently and to prevent them from sharing information with others. If no one can trust what words mean, you cannot trust the ideas behind those words. One of those ideas is the concept of personal trust. If your best friend is just as susceptible to repeating false information as the stranger on the street, that friends can no longer be trusted. The natural bonds between people fall away and everyone is a node of the state.
This is how the left rips the very foundation of a civilized society right out from under you. The late, great Robert Conquest had a term for the end result of the process of logocide as described here mindslaughter. He coined this term in reference to the total domination of mind and conscience by the evil Soviet Empire. You can find this in the first chapter of his Reflections on a Ravaged Century Naturally, he is hated and despised by the Left.
Let me leave you with this admonition from the venerable Solzhenitsyn:
"The state system which exists in our country is terrible not because it is undemocratic, authoritarian, based only on physical constraint - a man can live in such conditions without harm to his spiritual essence.""Our present system is unique in world history, because above and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. "
"To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent. When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render unto him what is God's - that is a sacrifice we dare not make!"
"The most important part of our freedom, inner freedom, is always subject to our will. If we surrender it to corruption, we do not deserve to be called human."
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, from the essay "As Breathing and Consciousness Return" published in From Under the Rubble - October, 1973
Words DO mean things, and words do MEAN things.
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Great article!
And he barely touched on the butchering and out-and-out outlawing of language and words.
Pelosi decreed earlier this year that in congress words like man, woman, mother, father, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, brother, sister etc. are no longer to be used because they “offend” the LGBTQRSTUV mafia.
Orwell is alive and well. He was a prophet.
I miss the days when people would say, “I think...” instead of “I feel...”
I would prefer verbicide (Latin verbum rather than Greek logos); it’s fratricide (Latin frater, not Greek adelphos)
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Great article! Thanks for posting.
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