By Community organizer and left-wing social activist Saul Alinsky wrote in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals, “he who controls the language controls the masses.” Alinsky, whose work profoundly influenced at least one notable fellow Chicagoan, Barack Obama, was in that quip channeling George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Newspeak,” the language of Orwell’s fictional single-political party superstate, was a tool devised for monitoring the people’s communications, prosecuting “thoughtcrimes,” and ultimately controlling and dictating the people’s very beliefs.
Conservatives have taken pleasure in
poking fun at the modern Left’s “Orwellian” tendencies—perhaps too much,
actually, as overuse of the accusation has limited its potency. But as
the woke ideology metastasizes within the American Left like the cancer
it is, and as censors increasingly clamp down on anything sniffing of
dissent to the regime’s orthodoxy, it is now clear that we are in a new
age of Orwellianism. In this new age, the regime and its enforcers
pursue the suffusion of its orthodoxy at any cost, gaslighting
dissenters into not believing their own lying eyes...........To Read More....
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