{"id":9581,"date":"2015-06-30T08:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2015-06-30T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T13:03:27","slug":"the-emergence-of-orwellian-newspeak-and-the-death-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9581","title":{"rendered":"The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t want a man unhappy politically, don\u2019t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it\u2026. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of \u2018facts\u2019 they feel stuffed, but absolutely \u2018brilliant\u2019 with information. Then they\u2019ll feel they\u2019re thinking, they\u2019ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they\u2019ll be happy, because facts of that sort don\u2019t change.\u201d \u2015 Ray Bradbury,\u00a0Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How do you change the way people think? You start by changing the words they use.<\/p>\n

In totalitarian regimes\u2014a.k.a. police states\u2014where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used. In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind.<\/p>\n

Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned\u2014discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred\u2014inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination and infantilism.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s political correctness disguised as tolerance, civility and love, but what it really amounts to is the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite.<\/p>\n

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– See more at: https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/the_emergence_of_orwellian_newspeak_and_the_death_of_free_speech#sthash.cDulZM82.dpuf<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech \u201cIf you don\u2019t want a man unhappy politically, don\u2019t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2703,6420,5327,6864,1235,6863,635,6300,1213],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-free-speech","tag-john-whitehead","tag-language","tag-newspeak","tag-orwell","tag-orwellian-newspeak","tag-police-state","tag-the-rutherford-institute","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9582,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}