Overcoming the Rhetoric of Jacobinism

American Thinker ^ | 30 Jul, 2022 | Ben Voth

[MtnClimber]

One of the most powerful tools of social control is capacity to define words. George Orwell established the ominous potential of the political darkness extending from such power. We in the United States find ourselves subjugated increasingly to a dangerous rhetorical world of doublespeak. Al Gore recently compared the killing of 19 children and teachers at Uvalde to the refusal to hear children crying out as victims of climate change. His comparison is not unlike his longstanding comparison of disagreement with his interpretation of the Earth’s proper temperature as analogous to Holocaust denial.

The propriety of this definitional rhetorical power is seen in individual political partisans. AOC, a Jacobin member of the House of Representatives, was pleased to ‘take it to the streets’ protesting against the Supreme Court overturning Roe. As the incredible heroine of her own fictional story, she was arrested and detained by police. Her arrest was fictional but usefully supported by legacy media giants and by holding her hands behind her back as if she was handcuffed. It was enough to create the vital social media meme of her oppression at the hands of brutal authorities. While arrested, she was able to break free and lift the clenched fist like her superhero Josh Hawley and then she was swiftly rearrested and placed back in invisible handcuffs.

We in America live in a propaganda culture exceeding the imagination and means of Orwell. Social media tech giants, and traditional media giants like Disney and ABC, converge with academia and our nation’s largest employer -- the federal government -- to create a seamless propaganda reality. We are now discovering that the previous empirical reality of two negative quarters of economic growth equating to a recession is no longer a proper definition.

[MtnClimber]

[Big Red Badger]

Good ole Days

[Jan_Sobieski]

“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, not 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 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.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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