Posted on 03/10/2025 5:36:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Through relentless government action and social pressure, America’s operating vocabulary has become Orwellian.
Most everyone has heard the meme, “He who controls the agenda controls the meeting.” Acknowledging that we can understand ultimate power would be controlling the words and language everyone uses lest they find socially or professionally ostracized.
When our government removes social media posts that differ from government policy or suppresses speech by arbitrarily deeming it hate speech, we begin to look quite like Orwell’s fictional Oceania. But that’s just a start. All kinds of behavior and thought are being restricted, manipulated, or banned through the left’s terms of engagement; that is, the language they use. When it comes to thought control, everyone should read or reread George Orwell’s 1984 as an essential marker of the dangers of an all-powerful state. In 2025, 1984 is no longer required reading in most schools, and you should ask yourself the question why? Even a cursory reading of 1984 would make many uncomfortable with the parallels to everyday life. A friend told me, “They are afraid students would recognize they already live in Orwell’s world.”
Newspeak was the official language of Orwell’s Oceania, the stage upon which Orwell told his story. Newspeak turned our language upside down “to make all other modes of thought impossible” and “to make any thought of diverging from the principles of the government unthinkable.”
False and misleading language is Orwellian Doublespeak, allowing murderous thugs like Adolph Hitler to disguise mass murder behind boring bureaucratic terms. (Example: “Evakuierung” (evacuation) was used as a euphemism for death and deportation to concentration camps.) This same manipulation of language was a key part of how Stalin and other 20th century tyrants used language to control people’s lives and, eventually, life itself.
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The large part of the public education system that has joined the “Trans Cult” is certainly disturbing. They are promoting that the twisted words and twisted reality actually get surgically implemented.
Who cares about the meeting? It's who writes the minutes that controls the outcome.
To sing "Deck the Halls," at Christmas as original is almost hate speech and would certainly be confusing to a child.
♫...Don we now our glad apparel...♬
Easy, peasy
...is a cowardly dodge.
Superior to a murder rap.
To escape social media censors, one has to replace the word “kill” with “unalive”; and the word “gun” with “pew-pew”. At this rate, the word “gun” will eventually be erased from the lexicon.
I’ve been railing against this manipulation of language for decades. It must be Rule 1 in their playbook. It’s blatant and unclever, but people always seem to submit to it.
Bkmk
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