Posted on 07/18/2014 2:19:46 AM PDT by markomalley
I suspect that there’s a certain amount of thought that can rattle around in a human head without the assistance of language -- a certain amount of spatial reasoning, perhaps, a baby’s silent attempt to stack his blocks -- something is going on in there.
But mostly we think with language -- and here I define think as the function of reason, the analysis and assessment of available facts, the kind of clear mental function that should take place before a person votes.
If you were a member of an elitist group trying to get complete control of a logical and stiff-necked people, what would you have to accomplish first? The citizens of that country would have to stop thinking, and since you can’t just pass a law against thought, their basic ability to think would have to be destroyed -– gradually before they noticed.
The process is simple:
But the most effective tool is one Orwell could see coming in 1948 -- the erasure of our language. If one is looking for domination without all the mayhem of military takeover, then just render the language unusable -- technology makes that easy. Through television, radio, and the Internet the attack on our language has been launchedand is doing quite well; even conservative factions appear to be helping instead of hindering this effort.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I have my own Newspeak-English dictionary:
- objective :
- reliably promoting the interests of Big Journalism. (usage: always applied to journalists who are members in good standing; never applied to anyone but a journalist)
- liberal :
- see "objective," except that the usage is reversed: (usage: never applied to any working journalist)
- progressive :
- see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").
- moderate:
- see "liberal." (usage: same as for "liberal").
- centrist :
- see "liberal" (usage: same as for "liberal").
- conservative :
- antonym of “objective"
- right-wing :
- see, "conservative."
Every now and then journalists/Democrats promote the idea that Republicans speak in code. They do this as a way of censoring the expression of truth: “When Republicans say they want everyone to take personal responsibility that is code for saying that people at the bottom don’t deserve any sympathy.”Some people deserve a lot of sympathy - but even at that, it is still dangerous to anyone for the government to take over all responsibility for, and concomitantly all authority over, them.
The device of calling the truth “code” is a method of censorship to suppress facts and logic.
It's tragic, the foundation of what makes the Idea Of America so great is allow to be obliterated.
"Home of the brave," not any longer.
The article deals with matters that need to be kept right out front. But, aiding and abetting the Fascists, by propagating their new, benign name, is a glaring shortcoming here.
the only place I have found where people are not speaking slang and are still debating ideas through high level discourse is in courtrooms.
The words you are sighting have no affect on ore language, you just think that bye listing them that their going to be readers who by into the idea that or language is in series trouble.
I only used words and phrases gleaned from the pages of FR.
FR pulls viewers from the gamut of our population, some literate, some ... not. And a fair number for whom English is not their native language.
So while I can play grammar nazi with the best, I usually look beyond all but the most glaring faults, and where I correct, I try to do it gently.
And there is a vast difference between the casual linguistic blunder on FR and the deliberate prostitution of our mother tongue by the Left.
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