The Prison-House of Political Language - Neema Parvini

[roberth]

From here - https://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/

to here

https://quillette.com/2018/06/04/prison-house-political-language/


In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fools-Frauds-Firebrands-Thinkers-Left/dp/1472935950/) (2015), Roger Scruton reminds us that “intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society in the belief they will be in charge of it” (p. 12), and this is one reason why they most often start with the area over which they have the most control: language. Another reason is because reality has a stubborn habit of not cooperating with their utopian visions: thoughts are easier to control than economies or the revealed preferences of individuals. In this article, I will explore the various ways in which the political left uses the techniques of Newspeak in the real world, in Britain and in the USA, while projecting their own totalitarian motives onto their opponents.

The (D) uses colorful language to paint a Utopian picture of their version of the future, the people who vote (D) can't be bothered to notice what happened to 25 million (est) Russians or 60 million Chinese (est) after Lenin and Mao painted similar linguistic pictures.

[wctriumph]

This has been an obvious tactic for a long, long time to any thinking person. Turn the other guy into the boggy man by lying and making out what ever ideology being spouted as some sort of nirvana. Impressionable students are most susceptible to the communist / socialist "democracy" ideology propaganda that it is better because it is more fair and everyone is equal. I am sure that "Animal Farm" is not required reading in any school or university in the country. Marx is probably on the list of required reading.

[cstone]

No need to go back to a 19th century German living in England when you can just chalk the author of American history textbooks, Howard Zinn.

I’m still reading for more information on how the Nazi’s got pegged as a right wing movement. Clearly with the abdication of the Kaiser, the institutional right was marginally invested in the Weimar government. The left, represented by the communists and the socialists ( aka Nazi) struggled to overthrow the right. That a dictator rose out of the struggle to do unspeakable things was almost too predictable (see Napoleon).

George Washington is one of the most rare phenomena of a revolution; a man who walks away from power when it was freely given by the people in government. Never trust anyone who seeks power and make certain they do not remain in power for very long. Lawyers are never to be trusted with power and I sometimes wonder if lawyers shouldn’t be castrated before becoming eunuchs in service to the state. That certainly would decrease their numbers.