Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Orwell saw the future not Nostrodamus

Nostrodamus brought us riddles that are so open ended they could mean anything and thus they mean nothing.  George Orwell took a look at mid-century global politics and wrote a novel that darn near spells out everything that is happening now.  Like tyranny overcoming democracy and freedom through a government controlled media that plays on peoples fears.
Peace being destroyed by a series of wars that should not be fought because they can not be won.  But they are good for playing on peoples fears though.
One of my personal (least?) favorites is Orwellian double speak where you simply provide deniability via manipulation of language and its usage.  For instance, don't amass the citizens against you with terms like 'martial law' when you can simply re-name martial law something neutral sounding like 'fiscal crisis intervention' ?
Pretty smart huh ?  Now we can apply that to social issues.  Say for instance that you or your party are inherently homophobic and would like to oppress the LGBT portion of our nations population.  Don't come out honestly stating that your taking away or keeping away Americans constitutional rights.  Say that your denying them 'special rights' that they are demanding for themselves.  Just spend a lot of time beforehand getting people used to hearing double talk so they don't try to think they're way through it.
If you can convince people that equal rights and special rights are the same thing, your half way to dividing and conquering the nation right there.  Then you just install MARTIAL LAW oops I mean fiscal crisis intervention and next thing you know you may be able to become president for life (as opposed to tyrant.)  If you already dumbed down your core support group with double talk and fear of independent thought it's just a walk in the park.  Just hope there isn't a God waiting for you in the afterlife.

On Wisconsin !    FORWARD !!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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