"George Orwell pointed out that one of the first casualties of socialism is language.
The damage is not collateral, it is deliberate—designed to numb minds and render critical thought difficult or impossible.
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc).
Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting, and manufacturing words.
New words had a “political implication” and “were intended to impose a desirable mental attitude upon the person using them.”
The meaning of words was often reversed, as was most starkly emphasized in the key slogans of Ingsoc:
Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949.
Its nightmarish fictional world is now 36 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality.
...the UN’s “Global Governance” agenda, which seeks nothing less than to oversee and regulate every aspect of life on the basis of a suite of alarmist projections.
The main existential threat is claimed to be catastrophic man-made climate change.
...In a video lecture to Chinese students earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres claimed that there was “No excuse” not to meet the Net-Zero emission target by 2050.
“The time for small steps has passed,” he said.
“What is needed now is transformational change.”
For “transformational” read “revolutionary;” change that would involve the destruction of Western industrial society and freedom.
In fact, there is no climate “crisis” or “emergency.”
However, as Orwell noted, the language of fear and panic is one of the main instruments of political control...Much here, read all.
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