12-05-2018, 11:25 PM
(12-04-2018, 11:39 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Are you familiar with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four? Do you know what Newspeak means? In Orwell's nightmare, words themselves become lies. Communication becomes worthless, and the very structure of independent thought -- the language that people think that they know becomes useless for thought. Newspeak describes just as well what Nazis did with language as did the Soviets, except that the Soviets coined barbarous compounds like agitprop and sovnarkom (Soviet people's commissar).How many words that the liberal's use and associate or identify with supposedly don't really mean what they're actually supposed to mean according to the dictionary these days. How many liberal news channels aren't actually real news channels these days? Now, I've never read Orwell's "1984" but I've got a pretty good idea what the book is about and the life lessons that the book is trying to teach its readers and so forth.
With such systematic liars as the Nazis, words mean nothing. "Protective custody" doesn't mean that the police relocate someone from danger from mob violence to a place of safety, but instead jails him so that the people can be protected from contact with him. "Special treatment", far from being a privilege, meant "summary execution". "Resettlement" meant removing Jews from places in which murdering them would be inconvenient to places in which nobody could stop their murder. To this day we are careful to avoid using the phrase "final solution" because it has come to mean the destruction of the Jews. You probably do not want to get me to lecture you on the difference between a literal meaning of Arbeit Macht Frei
(work makes one free) and the reality of slavery or extermination for inmates of other Nazi camps. Buchenwald was different from the others in its choice of slogans.
You need to learn some more about the Holocaust. Jews were made steadily more helpless by limiting their expression, separating them from the rest of the people so that people would not take pity upon them, taking away any possible defenses (guns and even pet dogs), and eventually herding them like livestock to the concentration and extermination camps. Jews kept believing that things would get better because they couldn't get worse and that was demanded of them didn't seem unusual (like "Undress before you take a shower) -- until someone cast Zyklon-B into the fake shower. When was it too late? Long before Jews arrived at the ramp for "selection". "Left" to swift death in a gas chamber or "right" to toil under starvation rations calculated to cause one to die of a combination of hunger and overwork. Jews were allowed the luxury of wishful thinking until they got a whiff of hydrogen cyanide gas.
With creeps like Nazis completely untrustworthy with objective fact and the usual expression of such, their words mean what those creeps do and not what most of us think that those words mean. A bare minimum of integrity is that people use words precisely, which precludes even the milder forms of deceit (thus no "healthy forests" that means clear-cutting forests so that no trees remain, which was Dubya).
It is you who needs to be wary of what a would-be despot or dictator says -- to not believe an inveterate liar like Donald Trump or one of his appointed spokesmen says. (OK, strictly speaking, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is female, but you get the idea -- I hope).
I have been hurt less by Donald Trump than many who supported him. I have some idea of what he is up to. I have read about demagogues like him who play up resentments among people in economic distress or who believe that their culture is under assault. He will protect them if only they give up their freedom and their prosperity.
As a wise man (Benjamin Franklin) said at the time of the American Revolution:
Quote:Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The more dangerous the time, the more relevant becomes the wisdom of the truly great people of the American past. "Safety" means certainty of one's privileged role in society (such as "I am white and I deserve my white privilege"), a reliable income, fitting into a culture made for oneself but not for everyone else, or self-delusion.
You need to give up the idea that Do0nald Trump is your political ally. In view of his virulent, venomous, vituperative, vehement expressions of villainous vindictiveness (Yes, I saw V for Vendetta), I would be wary. He can turn on a dime and turn his anger to what used to be friends. His ethical values are those of a mobster.
I am old enough that the biggest fear of getting old is the stale life that I now endure. The second biggest fear that I have is of eternal damnation. All that I fear of death is the excruciating pain of most ways of dying -- and what lies beyond. I am not giving my soul to Donald Trump's false god Mammon.
According to Tucker Carlson, the liberals are pretty Orwellion which I tend to agree with based on my own knowledge of the liberals and their beliefs and what they want/prefer to have for a government. Now, I'm not a big fan of Tucker Carlson. He's a bit to smug and wimpy for my taste but he does have some interesting views and personal takes on issues. So, I do watch his show a bit when there is nothing else on that's more important for me to watch or something more important for me to do instead.
BTW, if the liberals want to preach to me or members of the white working class about the bad/ evil associated white white privilege, I'd suggest that they refrain from using or sending members associated or related to black privilege or Hispanic privilege or mixed black/ Asian Indian privilege and above all do not send a member of white privilege because we don't see them emptying their personal piggy banks that are filled with millions of dollars. I WILL EDUCATE NANCY PELOSI and PLACE A MORAL EXPECTATION ON HER AND THE MILLIONS SHE HAS IN HER PERSONAL ACCOUNTS AND PLANT A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING INTO THAT EMOTIONALLY BOGGLED LIBERAL BRAIN OF HERS THAT SHE WOULD NEVER FORGET.