Posted on 06/09/2019 7:39:57 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
We are living with a new kind of regime that didn’t exist in Orwell’s time. It combines hard nationalism—the diversion of frustration and cynicism into xenophobia and hatred—with soft distraction and confusion: a blend of Orwell and Huxley, cruelty and entertainment. The state of mind that the Party enforces through terror in 1984, where truth becomes so unstable that it ceases to exist, we now induce in ourselves. Totalitarian propaganda unifies control over all information, until reality is what the Party says it is—the goal of Newspeak is to impoverish language so that politically incorrect thoughts are no longer possible. Today the problem is too much information from too many sources, with a resulting plague of fragmentation and division—not excessive authority but its disappearance, which leaves ordinary people to work out the facts for themselves, at the mercy of their own prejudices and delusions.
During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, propagandists at a Russian troll farm used social media to disseminate a meme: “ ‘The People Will Believe What the Media Tells Them They Believe.’ — George Orwell.” But Orwell never said this. The moral authority of his name was stolen and turned into a lie toward that most Orwellian end: the destruction of belief in truth. The Russians needed partners in this effort and found them by the millions, especially among America’s non-elites. In 1984, working-class people are called “proles,” and Winston believes they’re the only hope for the future. As Lynskey points out, Orwell didn’t foresee “that the common man and woman would embrace doublethink as enthusiastically as the intellectuals and, without the need for terror or torture, would choose to believe that two plus two was whatever they wanted it to be.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Be sure to get them copies of Animal Farm as well.
The real problem is he does see allthose things but is a propagandist for the DS.....
Spot on. This piece reveals the writer’s authoritarian leaning.
Anyone want to hire some hookers to pee on this guys bed ?
Yeah...thought about it...one at a tome...is there a youtube of animal farm? I shd look
Fish don't notice the water. And I can't imagine a wetter venue than the Atlantic.
One measure of just how far certain progressives have gone down that road is the number of things that have taken on the doublethink patina: we are informed, for example, that men can have periods, that free speech is Nazism, that theft is social justice, that entire groups may be subjected to random violence simply for being and society will be the better for it, that people may suspend all critical intellectual ability and chain themselves to The Narrative under the ironical title of Critical Thinking, and that The Party is the ultimate arbiter of truth. Orwell's villain was right: it takes work to believe that one's chocolate ration may be increased from 30 grams to 20 and that 2+2=5.
The problem is that the real world always eventually crashes through this defensive network of self-deception, generally in the form of some sort of catastrophe that might have been avoided with a little more regard to the truth. It's one thing to imagine to yourself that you can fly and to get a friend to validate that as Smith is told in 1984; it's quite another to believe it when the floodwaters are closing in.
well Bub, lines like below are aimed at people like me who are against Progressive-ism/Communism/Fascism/Forced mind think.........
“We are living with a new kind of regime that didn’t exist in Orwell’s time. It combines hard nationalism—the diversion of frustration and cynicism into xenophobia and hatred—with soft distraction and confusion.
I don’t know about you but the above does not describe me, even though I do not think like a democrat.
Have a nice life with what ever you believe - hope you live long and healthy without over government control on you.
My polite question was honest, even if you aren't.
Perhaps you don't understand the concept of gaslighting.
This article is in The Atlantic. Unless you are a reader of The Atlantic (and a liberal), you are not the target. Ergo, you are not being "gaslit." BTW, I am not a reader of The Atlantic but stumbled on this article quite by accident. Posted it because it is good that we know our enemy and how he thinks.
Furthermore, because the author of this piece seems to believe his own bilge, he is not trying to "gaslight" his liberal brothers.
Bub. Heheh.
Or perhaps a better name for you is Boob.
This article seems to be preaching to the converted (the author's fellow Liberals) by attributing qualities to the Right that are practiced by and inherent to the Left. That may be despicable, but it's not gaslighting.
That said, Liberals are most certainly guilty of spreading propaganda and lies that demonize, discredit, and seek to destroy the Right.
It's been a long time since I've watched or thought about that. Prompted me to find this. Notice the similarities to the popular left-think of today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvvPZd6_D8
I prefer luscious breast with beautiful areolas. Thank you very much tiny goin mass.
mea culpa, I meant Tiny Groin Mass.
It is the same with the authors of Hunger Games and Harry Potter: pure projection.
I’m wondering what George Packer’s middle name might be, my first guess is Fudge.
Insisting that immigrants obey the rules is hatred.
Try the 24/7 hate scenes of CNN and MSNBC!
Bkmk
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