Posted on 07/30/2022 4:41:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Left's fundamental problem is that its haughtiness, fervor, and zeal for gaslighting sane Americans is belied by its unpopularity.
Community organizer and left-wing social activist Saul Alinsky wrote in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals, “he who controls the language controls the masses.” Alinsky, whose work profoundly influenced at least one notable fellow Chicagoan, Barack Obama, was in that quip channeling George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Newspeak,” the language of Orwell’s fictional single-political party superstate, was a tool devised for monitoring the people’s communications, prosecuting “thoughtcrimes,” and ultimately controlling and dictating the people’s very beliefs.
Conservatives have taken pleasure in poking fun at the modern Left’s “Orwellian” tendencies—perhaps too much, actually, as overuse of the accusation has limited its potency. But as the woke ideology metastasizes within the American Left like the cancer it is, and as censors increasingly clamp down on anything sniffing of dissent to the regime’s orthodoxy, it is now clear that we are in a new age of Orwellianism. In this new age, the regime and its enforcers pursue the suffusion of its orthodoxy at any cost, gaslighting dissenters into not believing their own lying eyes.
This week, new governmental data revealed that the American economy, measured by gross domestic product, contracted for the second straight quarter. That was, up until perhaps a week ago, the universally accepted definition of what constitutes a “recession.” This was not a partisan issue; indeed, well-known liberal Democratic Party economists have frequently defined recession in precisely these terms. Back in 2008, President Joe Biden’s current National Economic Council director, Brian Deese, stated: “Of course, economists have a technical definition of recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.” And in 2019, top Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein said that a “recession” is “defined as two
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Bad is the new good.
Freepers: If you haven’t read 1984 just stop what you are doing, find a copy and read it. It was a scary book way back when. Now that we are indeed living it out it is worse.
An absolutely must read for Freepers.
Newspeak “ultimately controlling and dictating the people’s very beliefs.”
When I saw language being redefined to refer to men pretending to be women, I said, “This is Newspeak.” I didn’t realize the Biden Regime utilized it as thought control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZBnUt6rZ0
This is the original movie, black and white that follows the script well. Saw this as a kid and never forgot it.
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I first read this short novel while in high school, and thought, “Naw. Can’t happen HERE, in the US of A.”
Over the years, naïveté has been largely abolished, as each of the points Orwell was making have become mainstays in the theories of government as practiced here. Orwell was a very astute observer of the deficiencies and shortcomings of the Fabian Society, a kind of precursor to today’s “progressive” practices, which continues in all the deficiencies and shortcomings.
In 1949, shortly after the book was first published, Life Magazine had a pictorial synopsis of the various terms from that cautionary tale. It showed the denizens of that world as walking about, naked but with no gender, illustrating each of the terms of “Newspeak”. Maybe somebody can find that issue.
Orwell understood that he was duped in Spain, when the leaders of the leftist cause he supported/fought for (anarchists) were murdered by the leaders of the leftist cause they initially supported (communist-funded leftist government) - and the members of the anarchist militias were forced into communist-led military units. It was a key point in fracturing the “popular front”, as leftist idealists realized the new boss was the same as the old boss - in fact, even more deadly.
I have not read the book, but I have seen the movie. I imagine the movie misses a lot?
Two books that really woke me (I use the word woke in it’s original meaning not today’s newspeak) up were 1984 & Atlas Shrugged.
Private gun ownership is all that prevents this.
1984 is a fiction. To read it in non fiction, grab Solzhenitsyn.
I am reading “The Gulag Archipelago” right now.
I have read Orwells 1984 ask least six times and probably more.
Their goal is to have the citizenry, no-the victims be themselves be criminal, police, judge, jury and executioner. Where they get to they don't even break he crime. CrimeStop they called it. If the person were to engage in CrimeStop and fail, it would be un-crimestop. (The battle for total control of the language in their exploration of Newspeak. I suggest four books for FReepers:
Reading those books will help anyone fully understand current events.
We’re actually living a combo of “1984” and “Brave New World”.
I recommend both.
I read 1984 45 years ago. I thought it was very entertaining fiction that was impossible. I was wrong. I read it again recently. Around me today I can see 1984 happening.
Orwell’s book was a warning to us. We should have listened. We did not.
I personally think we are closer to something like Brave New World. We are the fattest, most passively entertained and comfortable people to ever exist. Our poorest are the most likely to be obese, which seems like something out of a sci-fi dystopia from the 30s. Our screen culture is like soma.
Freegards
I recommend both.
I was going to say the same thing.
It is as if the ruling class want us to morph into Brave New World, and are using 1984 Orwellian techniques to get there.
Christianity is in the way.
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