Truthful reporting cost Julian Assange 10 of “house arrest” to avoid life imprisonment for legally reporting crimes of the US government was a real “Shining City on a Hill” moment for US historians.
I remember Henry Kissinger saying that unless we understood Macchiavelli we had no idea what was going on behind the scene. So I bought a copy of The Prince. The one part that really stood out to me was the dynamic between the weak Prince and the powerful Minister. Since then it has become obvious to me that no matter how many times our elected officials are changed, the agenda keeps moving forward, and the distinction between political parties is a distinction without a difference.
You can't see a difference between the two US parties? Two-sides Fallacy (also, Teach the Controversy): The presentation of an issue that makes it seem to have two sides of equal weight or significance, when in fact a consensus or much stronger argument supports just one side. Also called “false balance” or “false equivalence.”
@@T_D_B_ There's a painfully obvious difference. Until recent SCOTUS rulings bribery after the fact wasn't considered a gratuity, making unfettered corporate pollution and cancer great again, nobody's above the law with the exception of presidents for "official acts." Etc...... 🤔
@@Jennifer-bs6oybefore pointing the finger at others a wise person reflects on their own beliefs and behaviours. Using MAGA as a scapegoat for everything wrong with the US is totally missing the point and why Trump will probably win the next election. Good job!
It was a stolen book from Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We and George other book Dystopian fiction can be traced back to Jack London's 1907 novel 'The Iron Heel....of course being 1984 was about socialism/communism and fits the United States perfectly today, speaks volumes of our current culture.
The worse threat is the world, economic forum WEF that controls our government right now, and the governments around the world through liberal Democrats. Scotland, England, France, Canada, they’re on fire right now taking peoples rights away. In many countries. Immigration is an absolute nightmare, all by design to crash the economy, so they can bring the new digital dollar traceable they can turn it on and off it will and you’ll have access to it only if you take your vaccines….
@@jonncockrell3606 I am a fan of Orwell's writing, but let's not forget Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World in which the masses will come to love their enslavement with daily deliveries to their door, 24x7 porn, 24x7 sport, 24x7 medicines etc etc. People no longer march in the streets because - although their human rights are being eroded on a DAILY basis - they're getting what they want anyway.
2014, English 2 AP, our English teacher had us all a book, 1984. She says “we read it in here and we talk about it in here.” I never understood why until 2022…. She went against the system in 2014 to show us the world and to show us what was coming. She put her job on the line for our future!!! That is a TEACHER!!
@@fredlawrence8331did Fox News tell you 1984 is banned? Because it’s not. Gender Queer, however, IS banned - and THOUSANDS of other LGBT+ books have been banned - teachers and librarians can be IMPRISONED just for mentioning their existence, and history books- literal actual history books- have been banned from Florida K-12 schools. I know Fox News feeds you a narrative, and you believe it without question- but you should really expand your sources of information.
@@anamericanentrepreneur The chosen and ordained one perhaps Gods most honest creation second only to Jesus / vengeance and retribution, grab em by the 🙀 Dictator for a day/ oxymoron. Chosen, most honest/wanting desperately needing absolute immunity 🤔
Orwell was a genius. I used to teach Animal Farm and 1984 to high school students. In the aftermath of 9/11 and during the American war in Iraq, teaching 1984 was extraordinarily impactful.
"The smart way to keep the passive and obedient, is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum, even to encourage the more critical, and dissident views, that give people the sense, that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits on the range of debate" Noam Chomsky.
The most glaring example of the user of doublespeak is Mr. Donald Trump. It has been a lifelong habit for him. He has now weaponized it in a way that endangers all of us.
This describes the very nature of fox news. This is trumptards go to. He says he didn't say the things he said even though it was filmed and recorded. When you show them the reality the republican voters say, it was photoshopped, fake, red flag exercise, doctored, and edited. You took it out of context is another one of their faves.
Anyone else here in the US Navy? They can tell you that inflated language is how we write our yearly evaluations. It's kind of a running gag to make the most mundane day-to-day activities sound like finding cancer cures on a daily basis. For example: "single handedly managed the upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents" or, changing light bulbs.
Has been going on for years-'horticultural digging implement'- 'spade', the verbosity has just increased. Never waste 10 words when 1000 would do the job.
That is how we've been taught to write our job resumes. The better you make your activities look, at your past jobs, the better it makes you look as a potential employee. Or so we are told. I would say it depends on the HR person reading the resumes, but now, many companies, don't read them. They are processed through AI. So, the more flowery language is fed into AI, the more it will seem to be the standard.
When I was in my junior year of high school, I remember a spiritualist was hired to entertain us. The audience hall was full, about 175 kids and teachers. He proceeded to show us how he was going to hypnotize us and even told us how he would have us at his will. Much of the audience fell into his hypnotic trance, some more deeply than others and some like myself were wide awake and not affected. This stayed with me all my life, and now I understand many things.
Hypnotism is basically what witchcraft looks like in the real world. Alister Crowley, an actual Satan-worshipper, described magic as the ability to manipulate others. Usually motivated by the love of money (the root of all kinds of evil) witchcraft is how people end up paying for things that hurt them while rejecting free things that would help them. They allow themselves to be manipulated and deceived. In scripture, Satan’s role is that of a deceiver; he can’t force us to do anything, but people follow his ways because we let ourselves be deceived. It’s unfortunate that schools expose kids to that kind of thing. My theater teacher in high school had us lying on the ground emptying our minds, trying to “let our character take control of us.” I was the only kid who didn’t participate because it was obviously shady.
Many years ago I decided to get more involved with local politics and began by listening closely to a speech given by Ontario Premier, Bill Davis, on an important current issue. He spoke for about 3 minutes and, when he was finished, all I could think was: "He said nothing concrete. Nothing but empty words wrapped around flowery positive images and a general rah-rah for us feeling." For this his party members rose to give him a standing ovation.
Same thing for me with a Bill Clinton speech. I was like, "He just talked in circles, said nothing at all, and they are all giving him a standing ovation." That began my distrust of politicians
Its all over politics. Simple phrases that sound good but have no concrete motivation is behind much of the crazy politics today. "Everyone has equal value" sounds good and is easy to agree with, but is used to motivate mass-immigration, while ignoring that most cultures on earth disagree with that very same statement - as in womens rights, gay peoples right to *_exist,_* et.c., et.c..
@useyourmind4405 Mine was seeing in clear daylight Ron Paul's policies in perfect coordination get destroyed by the media and the way people I thought were intelligent around politics were using these same talking points 24 hours later.
1984 was required reading in 6th grade when I went to school. That was just before 6th, 7th, and 8th grade was reclassified as "Middle School". It was still "Grade" School and 7th and 8th were junior high. In junior high, the reading list just got longer, and the books got bigger. Almost everyone I knew had read The Lord of The Rings by the time 9th grade english came along and Shakespeare was the requirement. School doesn't even teach children to read anymore.
Sorry but I just don't believe you that any sixth grade teacher would have students read 1984. Animal Farm more like and you just remember it wrong. 1984 is not 6th Grade, even in places with great education programs.
I don't know about reading, but judging by the standards of English in these comments columns, no-one is teaching or learning how to write English with correct spelling and grammar, or to check through what they have written.
@@FlanaFugue. We read it right after Animal farm. In fact, I'm pretty sure we read it because we had just finished Animal farm in class, and someone asked what else the author had written. Now That I think about it again, You may be technically correct. It may not have been "Required" reading, more like a suggested reading if you were curious. Back then 6Th Grade wasn't day care like it has become today. I remember really hating Drafting Class too. I really doubt they even have a drafting class these days!
Swift and Lewis Carroll fought the same war against organised idiocy. Organised idiocy is dangerous. "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." Mark Twain.
Perfect for tonight's Presidential debate! I worked for a retail store and the manager tried to make me believe that working half a day was actually a day off because I did spend time not working. So if I asked for a day off, she could reject it because I was already off 2 days in a row. UA-cam, as well as other social media outlets, are forcing us to use euphemisms more and more. Content creatures have to use works like 'unalive' or say 'rugs' instead of drugs. They can't say sexual abuse or assault or they will get demonetized. Undocumented immigrants. Unhoused person. I had a jail as a client and they referred to the prisoners as guests. WTF? Was I at DisneyWorld? Well, we wouldn't want to hurt the 'guests' egos'. If family units and our educational system doesn't teach kids Critical Thinking, we are doomed to fall for all these pitfalls discussed in this video. If you refuse to have a decent conversation with anyone that has views opposing your own, how are you going to learn to strengthen your own views? We find truths by putting them to the test. Also, if you don't have an open mind to hard conversations, you are doomed, possibly, to sit in the dark in a false reality, one of your own creation or, one that has been handed to you and kept you imprisoned with it. Looking at you YT.
@@KimberlyLetsGo What a truly accurate explanation, Kimberly. You have nailed it. In the UK we live in a democracy ... because we are told we do. The Reality is that our human rights are being eroded on a DAILY basis by stealth. As a former Head teacher in Lambeth, I REPORTED child ab*se and was sent to 10 prisons in 12 weeks as an innocent whistleblower. There IS no Rule of Law for the masses - it's an illusion used to subjugate the masses through false hope.
Saying "We must save democracy" while also saying that freedom of speech is "hate speech" and your administration will "hold people accountable" for speech that you don't like.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Another form of doublespeak in politics is calling out "rights", which are not mentioned in the constitution, as being attacked, while all the time attacking the rights that are actually in the constitution.
@@blktarockstar818 You are the cattle they were aiming for. Immigrants who go through the legal process aren't called " documented immigrants ", there's your first clue. You are not an immigrant if you simply wash up to our shores, you have done so illegally hence you an illegal alien, the exact term used in the very federal documents used to prosecute the crime. If I posses an illegal machine gun and it's found in a search of my car, I can't simply say " but officer, that's not an illegal machine gun, but rather it's an undocumented lead delivery device ", and think the crime will go away. Quit being a mark.
What did Montesquieu mean by there is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice? The quote "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice" by Montesquieu refers to the idea that a government that abuses its power and uses the law to justify its actions is the most dangerous form of tyranny.
Yes, because the ordinary person can't fight back when the government has has the courts, military and political leaders on its side of wrong. Even the Courts can be corrupted- the last bastion of " justice"- but where you" stack" the court like US Supreme Court you can manipulate a political ideology through the courts. Now the US can have a President who can't be charged for ANY ACTIONS EVER provided was done during the Presidency regardless if it was done with malicious intent. So now the President is above the law courtesy of the Republican stacked SupCt. So the President can even act against his own country and citizens. It's all happening in real time. EU, WEF controlling international finances all the while representing billionaires and themselves not their countries.
It's a business (lawyer) to save a big business and their profit, where the most people have no ideas how the business is really working and aren't knowing the real rules, having no insights in this main contracts, don't sing up to this social contracts, but have keeping the law you must, if not - it's not the problem of the Ruler. ;-) Unfair games you must wondering about why you're always the victim in this game!? Surprise. ✌️🤣 ✨ Surprised? 😉👈 „The World is a stage." Shakespeare The whole world is a Corporation. All „Nations“ are companies, now. Since when? Quote: „... Infiltration instead Invasion ...“ 3 important words from the Speach of JFK , 1963, he was warning you, his American people. Think about: „Trojan horse“ mechanism. Who was infiltrating your State, and when did it happen?
the more "sophisticated" a person talks (and acts), the more you should question their actual knowledge and true meaning of what is said. Good communication is a skill that gets your message across unambiguously in as simple a manner as possible.
Don't call it counterfeiting money, call it "fractional reserve banking" instead Don't call it rent, call it "property tax" instead Don't call it debasing the currency, call it "inflation" instead Don't call it lying to Congress, call it "misrepresented" instead
I think i basically agree with those sentiments, but hey here's an unrelated thought (basically)... it would only take 40 bucks a year from each U.S. taxpayer to feed 43 million mf'ers globally and save (statistically speaking) 100% of all people per year from starving to death.. but I've never heard any pubic figure take about this. sooo.. let's do that, i propose... anybody else want to start a thing up where we care about that particular item? contact me and lmk how we can make it a thing
@@Mark_and_Family Why do you think that would be a good thing? We have problems that are the results of having too many people in places with not enough resources, we can thanks philanthropies and religious organizations for that.
He spoke such truth on that, though. At least up until the point of him writing that routine, the softened language at least still had a degree of coherency, whereas post-internet, it's turned into je ne sais quoi. Also, as a 🐉, plumb love your profile picture 💚💚
Actually Post Traumatic Stress Disorder describes the disorder accurately. The veterans came home from the war strong and confident toughing it all out until months or years later having a total break down. The term PTSD has been watered down to mean any stress a person goes through after any traumatic event even witnessing an event and immediately feeling the stress afterward. That was not the original meaning of the phrase.
@@sr2291 PTSD can mean a singular event whereas C-PTSD refers to a prolonged situation. I suffer from C-PTSD from an abusive mother such that I ended up in hospital with a severe hemorrhaging ulcer requiring many transfusions, due to the ongoing stress over the years. I think it is fair to recognize both the short term trauma and the chronic trauma because in therapy they need to be approached differently.
@@l.5832 When it gets watered down then people no longer believe the more severe long term version even exists and they treat long term with short term therapies. Glad you got help.
I was in the USARMY they'd say "We (the officers) don't ever change." "That is just the way we do things." "Nothing in life is fair." If i point out that something is illegal or someone (in authority) is breaking the law, "I'll have a talk with them." "They got permission from a judge." "They have been pardoned by a judge." "Obey your chain of command." "Just do as you are told." "You are just going to have to learn that you can't always have your way." I was demanding they uphold the law. I pointed out. I am not asking for a favor.
The founders was and currently stand against a standing Army 🪖. You have be/been/being indoctrinated from state school. Say No to a standing Army 🪖. MAGA for Trump, just say No to extra spending on Defense spending. Say No to All vaccines including for your own family 🙏. 😊😊
Similar experience working as a correctional officer, most go along to get along because they can’t afford to lose the job because of a mortgage and children to support. Economic bondage and fear.
Except the Nurenberg trials demonstrated that you can't rely on the " I was following orders" defence. Funny how they're still teaching that when they know if you are involved in illegality, no chain of command is going to save you. It's all a method of coercive control regardless of morality or illegality. So law applies to everyone unless you're a military leader or a politician but grunts can be jailed
Allowing systems of power to hijack language, to legislate what can be said, to decide what speech is allowed, or punished, is a dangerous path to go down, for it allows for the control of the uttering, and so the thoughts of the people they wish to control.
The UK right now and their hate speech laws. Literally this. And coming to a western country near you if it hasn’t already. Authoritarian Communism for all!
I read 1984 in the 1960s. My generation has seen the infancy of its truths take a foothold onto todays sad reality. Your perceptions are well expressed, but you showed your personal politics too.
Every time I hear the words "Stunning and Brave" in that exact combination, I mentally prepare myself to see someone who actually looks "insane and ugly".
Gender affirming care is doublespeak. It used to be sex change operations. This was direct and you knew what it meant. Gender affirming care can now be hormones or affirming someone’s perceived gender (that doesn’t match their sex). And this even leaves the door open for women that get plastic surgery as “gender affirming” or men getting surgery to correct gynecomastia is now “gender affirming care”. These could be “sex affirming” but they muddy the water so you get confused and think all these situations are the same
When people have to resort to using a euphemism to describe something it is because there is some reason they can't or won't call the thing what it is. When public authorities do this it is in order to conceal the true nature of the thing.
Yeah, particularly as science has proven that sex cannot be "changed" and that there are only 2 sexes...but yet in some "democratic" countries, people are being sued for stating as such.
NZ's PM Jacinda Ardern implored Kiwis to be "calm and kind" while she cruelly made people lose their jobs and careers because they didn't want the gene therapy shot. Her government refused to allow nz citizens return to nz during the lockdowns even if they wanted to attend the funeral of a parent or spend time with a dying father. Absolute "doublespeak". In another age they called it humbug.
The perfect description of any politician, manager or CEO. We have been deceived by double speak for decades. Which is why you have to develop critical thinking. Most people do not have that ability.
"I'm sorry you feel that way" instead of "im sorry i hurt you" is my pet peeve doublespeak. Says "im sorry" but shifts the blame on YOU for "choosing" to be hurt.
Oooh me too and I always push back and say "the fault is not my FEELINGS , it's the REALITY of what you did". Shuts them up quick smart. I don't take that crap nonsense
Not really doublespeak imo, I know someone incredibly sensitive and will often try to blame me for their feelings being hurt. For example they asked me what I had for breakfast the other day, then got upset because it was apparently something nicer than what they had. I’m not going to take responsibility for that. I am genuinely sorry they’re upset, but I’m not about to take responsibility for their oversensitivity either. Neither am I saying they’re choosing to be hurt, simply that I’m sorry that they are upset, that’s all that is meant.
When the BBC described a protest in London as a mostly peaceful demonstration, which resulted in 60 police officers being hospitalised and one paralysed is a good example of doublespeak and doublethink all at the same time.
Ironically mean social media posts or hurting someone's feelings, if they aren't white, is almost terrorism in the UK. Assault a child, with friends? Sensitivity class. Complain about being replaced by hostile foreigners? The horror!
@@DrSpooglemon When the MSM says “Mostly peaceful protest”, it means violent protest, but I support those engaged in violence and want to spin the narrative to reduce their criminality.
@@BoecifusJones24 manufactured excitement. Blasted through the news and celebrities as a replacement for an actual message. The word “excited” is used, but nobody can say what specific change she proposed they’re excited about. They’ve just been made to be “excited” to win
I get so frustrated hearing people turn simple concepts into long winded meanderings. I didn’t know there were terms for this type of words games so this video is great man! Very informative, thanks.
Absolutely. Good video. But I'm wondering how to avoid euphemisms. For example, in politics it is deemed necessary. You need to get support for your policies. By using euphemisms it is easier to get that support from sponsors, other politicians and the public. I honestly don't see a workaround and don't think it is always bad.
Trying to explain why things are not as the newspeak says can make you pretty long-winded too. The "simple" words have all been redefined and co-opted, so you have to say more that that which sounds common sense to people who have accepted these redefinitions. All the worse when your trying to point out something that went wrong long ago. I'm a Christian, and I would be an "evangelical", if you go by the old definition. But I have no intention of voting for either candidate, not the one who has promised to be what is basically a fascist, not the other sorry one, either. Now, evangelical has been vilified, just like fundamentalism was before. If I say I am a fundamentalist, it signals a love of violence, not adherence to five fundamental teachings of the Bible. After the Trumpers had their raid on the capitol building, they were called "evangelical" by the mainstream news media , nearly across the board, even though a lot of those railing, violence loving people, would tell you that they hate Jesus! Are you a Christian if you hate Jesus? So what am I supposed to call what I believe? Mainly, I just say a believer in Jesus, although we get lambasted for being "ashamed" to call ourselves Christian!
I have been asking myself since years now how it happened that no clear and simple messages in which either just facts, intentions or opinions are mentioned no longer exist. Instead I have to work myself through an avalanche of terms in order to figure out what might be the basic message provided that it is even possible to identify one. The common explanation is that I'm dealiing with propaganda but that's too shallow. This video offers a profound analysis. Thank you for posting this. it is way overdue.
Fascinating. While I'm aware of language tricks, I hadn't joined as many dots as this explanation does. What still amazes me is that so many people, (here in France) are not remotely aware that they are being spun a line, when to me it's so obvoius
@@annelbeab8124 no, of course not, but it's where I live and I honestly thought people would be more aware of what's really going on, given their history.
Curtis Yarvin points out what i think is the most profound example of doublespeak today: the insistence that "politicizing" an issue is a bad thing but "democratizing" is a good thing. "Democracy without Politics" is almost as Orwellian as "Slavery is Freedom"
The notion that our government is bad, the source of all our problems, has been successfuly taught thru propaganda to the masses, the intended result of this propaganda is less regulations that benifit citizens as a whole and maximizes profits for corporations and the 1%.
Newspeak was just a refined form of doublespeak. The power isn't just in the language, it's in the ideas, the language as well as other media like images just expresses and spread the ideas and can distort them as well.
@@WilcoxNotreallythere Sounds better than bodily mutilation, sterilization or something along those roads. There is a whole doublethink rabbithole behind that statement and the relating ideologies, which're causing people to VOLUNTARILY do some manner of harm to themselves, whether or not they are really aware of that.
Yeah…spot on. Double Speak is a huge aspect of Scientology. I grew up in Scientology until I left home as a young adult. I distanced myself as best I could while still maintaining a relationship with my mother who was a 50 plus year member until her death a year ago. She was estranged from all four of her children for over 25 years. Since her death I’ve had to come to terms with the subliminal influence Scientology jargon and beliefs has had on me. The most common and consistent effects involve language. I have a bilingual thought process that has left me routinely existing with two sensibilities…one Scientology language and edicts juxtaposed with the normal real world language and sensibilities. I hadn’t fully realized I was left doing this throughout my adult life until my mother’s death triggered my full attention to what Scientology language did to my young self. This video explains how important the influence of language is on our thoughts, feelings and beliefs. This video has helped to explain some of how I was so deeply influenced and how difficult it is to fully eradicate Scientology from my reflex thoughts. Fortunately I’m able to catch myself and disregard most things Scientology. What surprises me is that it remains at all. L. Ron Hubbard was definitely Machiavellian and an expert in double speak. 🇨🇦👋
Why would they call genital mutilation “gender affirming care?” If gender is defined by genitals, “gender affirming care” would be helping someone reconcile with their genitals, which define their gender. If gender is NOT defined by genitals, then “gender affirming care” would be helping someone ignore the irrelevant implication of their genitals, which do not define their gender. Destroying a person’s genitals surgically is neither “affirming” nor “care.” It is violence.
In the 1980s it changed from salesclerks to sales associates, and from the personnel department to Human Resources, giving you the false sense of full partnership and of being a conditional business expense that could be tossed out at the employer’s whim at the same time.
There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure 'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven...
Well, it turns out this UA-camr uses their own form of obfuscation @ 3:43. Since Reagan is well known for his tax cuts, part of his economic policy called "Reaganomics," I had to do some fact checking. The real story is that when Reagan's advisors tried to get him to support "revenue enhancements," Reagan resolutely resisted, saying, "Revenue enhancements are by any other name a tax increase."
Don't participate in the word games. Words mean things. They're not migrants, they're ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. We're not cis, we're NORMAL. And a man can never be a woman.
There is a term "Doublethink" in Orwell's novel, 1984. That's holding two contradictory concepts, sets of facts, etc in one's mind without realising the contradiction exists. Today, the term 'cognitive dissonance' is sometimes used to describe doublethink, but it's not exactly the same thing. I also recall "Newspeak" from 1984 - reducing the number of words in English, so there's less possibility to articulate dissent, or to discuss political, scientific, philosophical or historical matters. In reality, pairs of similar words are being smooshed together to mean the same thing. There are no fewer words in the language, but fewer distinctions of meaning, and many more (now) redundant duplicate words meaning the same things, but with correspondingly less precision and nuance.
A fine point, I know…but: there is no meaning in words. The meaning is all in the sociocultural memory you have evolved since first becoming conscious. これは橋です is a perfectly formed sentence in the Japanese language-as-code. All language is a code used to unlock sociocultural memory. Bot moct is also a perfectly formed sentence, in the Russian language-as-code. Esto es un puente is a perfectly formed sentence in the Spanish language-as-code. The point is that every string of sound-shapes (in English we call them words but in some languages, such as Japanese and Braille, they are pictographs (shapes) or prominences on a surface, used to represent ideas) represents an ordinarily understood sociocultural memory…of a bridge. All three strings are the same as the English language-as-code sentence: This is a bridge. This example is used in linguistics to demonstrate that meaning is not in the language-as-code. It’s in and only in the sociocultural memory of an individual. That meaning is unlocked by a relevant language-as-code, one understood by the individual. The manufacture of consent, the manipulation of language, typically result in manipulation of meaning in the minds of individuals. The more an idea is repeated, the more prominent it is in sociocultural memory (forgetting is a lack of sufficient repetition and reinforcement). This is one reason literacy in schooling is vitally important. Without sociocultural memory predicated on broad and repeated experiences, and critical thought, language can only unlock less and less, forming intellectual servant to the ideas of the literate and manipulative.
@@GonRogue-85 Correct. You give it meaning… So, if it is still meaningless, my dear friend, you need a moment of introspection to question why your sociocultural memory is so shallow.
In Orwell's lifetime much was already known about totalitarian states and their use of information as a means of control. The Berlin wall had not yet been built when 1984 was published. What was happening in Soviet controlled territory was no secret, and the memory of Hitler's rise to power was fresh in the public's mind.
When I sit and watch this video I realise that I need to do it again and again to understand the concepts at hand. A few things come to mind at first listening, “Simulacra et Simulation” is one and time is the other. Words and meanings have context in the timeframe they are expressed. The phrases used to describe horrors of war being an example. If you think about “shell shock”, it was used to describe only small amount of people at the front end of brutal trench warfare, the rest of the population was oblivious to the horrors. Role time forward and the referencing frame changes as do the same words, except they change to describe the condition as PTSD and then they also use it to describe a wide array of conditions affecting masses of people. Time and context ! Anyway, most humans are children who can’t handle the truth.
In my opinion, the scariest part about 1984 is that the path to that world isn't ever stated, and that the easiest way to get there is to simply convince the population to go there by themselves. We are willingly going into 1984 and nobody seems to care, or is blaming the "opposing team" The one thing Orwell got wro'g was that there wouldn't be a single party. There would be two "opposing" parties that everyone thought were competing for power, but in reality served the same interests
In Jerry Rubin's book Revolution for the Hell of It, he explained how terms used in the value-system revolution were absorbed and de-powered by the establishment to continue profitable false values. Examples: "a revolution in haircare", "it's good for you naturally" (co-opting the return to more natural food), "it costs a little more, but I'm worth it" (ripping off the Women's Movement). An example of double-think, I think, is calling a missile a "peacekeeper" or "peacemaker". Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were more than Yippies portrayed in movies as frivolous.
They have changed the name of The Military Industrial Complex to "The defense industrial base" lately. (Sorry for spamming, just get excited about this, very interesting stuff here.)
@@poempadgett4664 I am not sure, I heard the word when some politician was talking about the 113 B the US had given to Ukraine, the money was given to the Defense Industrial Base.
@@christiansgrignoli3351 wouldn't it be great if they just used words like "Warlord" instead of General Secretary of Nato etc. He said literally "the way to peace is sending more weapons to Ukraine." That is like saying War is Peace
Honestly I think that’s splitting hairs. Also “double talk” doesn’t roll off the tongue. Sounds cumbersome to say. And I think that’s why nobody says it.
You may not't know this because you're probably a young whippershnapper, but throughout the 20th century the expression "double talk" was very common, referring to a person who was deceitful or said things to purposely muddy the waters (i.e., a crooked politician, etc.). I NEVER saw "doublespeak" written or said until about 25 or 30 years ago.
Yes, I'm a seasoned citizen, grew up with the term "double-talk." Simple and clear. "Double-speak" is very new; it sounds like an artificial contrivance.
Imagine you have been told over and over again that "we can unburden what it has been", if you have to listen to that for 4 years, that should be considered crime to humanity!
"Mistakes were made", first heard in 1987 from Reagan on the Iran-Contra affair. "Ethnic Cleansing", basically genocide, came from the 1990's former Yugoslavia "conflict", and a translation of the Serbo-Croatian language. From the Japanese Samurai, "Invite them Onward", for murder or war killing.
When a Teacher Aide became an Educational Technician with no change in actual job duties. When an Assistant Manager became a Management Support Specialist. On and on it goes
Almost all titles to U.S. statutes are composed of political doublespeak. For example, the federal statute usually referred to as "Obamacare" is titled "The Affordable Care Act." Since its enactment this law has continuously and immensely increased the costs of medical care.
Who gains the most with higher costs, who loses the most if we had united free healthcare? Stop making healthcare political to enrich the corporate healthcare industry.
The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, should be mandatory reading for high school seniors. George Orwell’s book 1984 should also be mandatory. It was required reading when I was in high school 40 years ago.
"The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children." - Kamala Harris
All those words but absolutely hollow. When I see people falling for it because they're scared shitless they might lose their right to abor+ion, I feel like I'm in some insane parallel universe or a bad dream.
@@ArisEmriis They aren't "absolutely" hollow, it's easy to see what she's saying; she just really got lost in politician-speak on that one,--which most politicians do when they talk publicly.
Well done. Clearly you know your Machiavelli. Quoting out of context is the most effective form of double-speak because it puts the opponent on the defensive in the listener’s mind
People still defending this double-speak is probably the best part. As the narrator said people just give politicians the pass because they're politicians and can bs as much as they want.
This is ridiculous logic... your options include "good" government and not just the nightmare presented in this video, and obviously good government is much better than barbarianism... and is largely the reason we're not still raiding each other locally (for the most part).
A euphemism used by GW Bush is "acceptable collateral damage" meaning innocent people who die from actions. This concept is also used by some people who pride themselves on wanting to change things with the use of violence.
Please fix the quote, read how using "then" destroys the meaning of the quote while "than" (and removing the comma) captures the funny but at the same time sad, point.
You missed the opportunity to actually give us clips or quotes for every one of the definitions you enunciated. You gave us silent pics that implied they were examples.
Due to years of stress and burnout, I have lost the ability to "see" words or images in my head, my inner vision. It's a phenomenon called aphantasia and I thought I was alone with the condition until I googled around and read up on it. This makes double speak even more exhausting for me, it's almost as having become autistic as an adult. Words that used to awaken memories, associations and emotions no longer have any "value". In my youth I used to have an extremely sharp intellect, I could easily read a paper, a novel or a book and remember the story, the content, the characters and the main points and tell the next person about what I'd read, what it was about and how it made me feel or think and even engage in an argument or a discussion about it. Nowadays I can't read a book because when I come to the end of a sentense, I no longer remember what I just read. My mind is completely blank. So listening to for example a conversation or a debate with Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand is completely pointless. Not only because they engage in intellectual masturbation but because I simply cannot follow along anymore. It all disappears and becomes meaningless, it's as if words don't mean anything anymore, they have become mere sounds that come and disappear like smoke. No lasting impact. I'm 52 years old and can't remember anything in my life, both short term and long term memory is gone. Yet, I don't have dementia, and an MRI brain scan showed nothing wrong, but it's a living hell. No thoughts, no emotions, no memories. So I believe there is an agenda with the double speak and the age of constant flow of information. Not only to confuse us, but to make us too mentally exhausted to resist.
When I was in college, I enrolled in a self paced math class. Understanding the jargon of such was a mind boggling challenge. My daughter who was in fifth grade, shared her text book with me. I finished the course in THREE days.
Lol, that's telling. My first college course was argumentation and critical thinking. It set me up to take on all the challenges of adult communication.
To the creator of this video. Double speak. 1 A woman's right to choose. 2 Gender affirming care. Do you see this as double speak? I do. Now how do we convince this to the people that repeat this?
@@FlanaFugue I agree this isn't doublespeak, but framing. The contra-side of the argument is "an unborn babies right to live", or "a loyal husbands right to not lose XYZ"
DoubleSpeak defies definition to the unwary. In the service of the State, it is how corporate media shapes the narrative and most people are oblivious.
The newest form of doublespeak that has come to the forefront is the phenomenon of "Word Salad". The technique of using a few words or a phrase repeatedly in a sentence, often rearranging them to make it sound like you're expanding on your thought and making a point when you're not. Take this gem from Kamala Harris for example (I tried to add punctuation as best as I could.) : "I think it's very important (as you have heard from so many incredible leaders) for us at every moment in time-and certainly this one-to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present; and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future." Yeah. That was a real sing she said. Out loud. In front of people. 🤦♂️
You really want to get pissed about it, legal murder for convenience, labeled as “health” care!! Think about it. Since they do this, they will do ANYTHING!
1:19 - that man is Prof. Willam Lutz. He wrote the books "Doublespeak" and "Doublespeak 2". He was also my English literature professor at RU-C. I had him for two courses. Very smart man, unafraid to ask you questions the knock you off your pedestal and start critical thinking. He never mentioned the books in class..EVER. Stuck to the classics of Greek/Roman and later Middle Ages literature. I only learned after i graduated that he wrote these, and read them eagerly. He was an EDUCATOR, not a TEACHER (you know the difference in 2024) and will be missed.
@@FlanaFugue no. they are different. Teachers tell you WHAT to think. Educators show you HOW to think. The minute we get back to the Agora and eliminate the dept. of education, we might get smarter kids.
@@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 okay, not all teachers are educators... but some of my best teachers taught me how to think, and they would have me question the dogmaticism with which you ensure that simply by reshuffling names on government offices we will solve the problem of having stupid American children.... it will take A LOT MORE than that, my friend.
I don’t think Jordan Peterson’s intent is to obscure or try to sound intelligent. If anything he speaks a lot about how he doesn’t know what something means and often uses many words as he struggles to grasp the subject. To me it appears he tries to show what the process of true learning looks like.
Jordan at times engages in the very post modernism claptrap that he rails against. He certainly tends to obfuscate in so much that he'll be willing to tie up a conversation with gobbledygook, jargon, and euphemisms. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Albert Einstein. I do like Peterson, but that doesn't mean he's beyond criticism for some of his rambling takes.
@@AfroGaz71 Peterson admits that post-modern philosophy has some things correct. It's the application that he seems to disagree with. So, if he falls into a post modern view, then that is because post-modernism is not entirely incorrect.
“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
― Edward Snowden
So, I'm not the only one who posts that in comments!
Truthful reporting cost Julian Assange 10 of “house arrest” to avoid life imprisonment for legally reporting crimes of the US government was a real “Shining City on a Hill” moment for US historians.
As Gary Waterman has found out recently.
Police are out of control
As Billy Jack stated, “When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law - just a fight for survival”
I remember Henry Kissinger saying that unless we understood Macchiavelli we had no idea what was going on behind the scene. So I bought a copy of The Prince. The one part that really stood out to me was the dynamic between the weak Prince and the powerful Minister. Since then it has become obvious to me that no matter how many times our elected officials are changed, the agenda keeps moving forward, and the distinction between political parties is a distinction without a difference.
I think you need to understand Israel to understand what’s going on behind the scenes
May I suggest the 48 Laws of Power as well? It also provides much insight. I read both.
You can't see a difference between the two US parties? Two-sides Fallacy (also, Teach the Controversy): The presentation of an issue that makes it seem to have two sides of equal weight or significance, when in fact a consensus or much stronger argument supports just one side. Also called “false balance” or “false equivalence.”
@M.J.212 it should be obvious he was referring to difference in outcomes... no matter the place holder, the agenda doesn't change. Get it?
@@T_D_B_ There's a painfully obvious difference. Until recent SCOTUS rulings bribery after the fact wasn't considered a gratuity, making unfettered corporate pollution and cancer great again, nobody's above the law with the exception of presidents for "official acts." Etc...... 🤔
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
Like the maga people
I believe I could never be brain washed or hypnotized
@@Jennifer-bs6oyPeople who believe that they cannot be fooled are often the most easily fooled.
@@chrismckell5353
Indeed.
@@Jennifer-bs6oybefore pointing the finger at others a wise person reflects on their own beliefs and behaviours. Using MAGA as a scapegoat for everything wrong with the US is totally missing the point and why Trump will probably win the next election. Good job!
@@Jennifer-bs6oyyou were easily fooled “maga people” lol drumph supporter’s aren’t our problem, it’s several pay grades above any stupid maga person
Those who stand for nothing, will fall for anything -Alexander Hamilton
1984 was supposed to be a warning. Instead it has become a guide
It was a warning. Unfortunately the ship that was headed everyone's way was below the radar and too big to stop.
@@patrickday4206 Astute comment
I believe the people who are doing this hve written out methods and they share with each other so it is literally a guide
It was a stolen book from Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We and George other book Dystopian fiction can be traced back to Jack London's 1907 novel 'The Iron Heel....of course being 1984 was about socialism/communism and fits the United States perfectly today, speaks volumes of our current culture.
nope. it was predictive programming.
"Imagine waking up to a world where words no longer mean what they appear to." On every level I think we are living that right now.
Anyone who has grown up with a narcissist learns that at an early age.
We once had natural male and female.....look what the Democratic polocy did to that
Learn to become the ungovernable....
Absolutely we are living it right now.
The worse threat is the world, economic forum WEF that controls our government right now, and the governments around the world through liberal Democrats. Scotland, England, France, Canada, they’re on fire right now taking peoples rights away. In many countries. Immigration is an absolute nightmare, all by design to crash the economy, so they can bring the new digital dollar traceable they can turn it on and off it will and you’ll have access to it only if you take your vaccines….
1984 was 40 years ago. We are way past that kind of primitive fascism. It's much worse than Orwell ever dreamed.
@@jonncockrell3606 I am a fan of Orwell's writing, but let's not forget Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World in which the masses will come to love their enslavement with daily deliveries to their door, 24x7 porn, 24x7 sport, 24x7 medicines etc etc. People no longer march in the streets because - although their human rights are being eroded on a DAILY basis - they're getting what they want anyway.
It's hybridized together with the Brave New World
A tyranny like we have never seen before is upon us all
@@sustainablerenewableintegr8311 yup.
It’s more like brave new world.
As a certified and tenured professional in Underwater Ceramics Engineering, (dishwasher) i find this both informative and way beneathe me..
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Well said...matter of fact,that's me on the job now.
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2014, English 2 AP, our English teacher had us all a book, 1984. She says “we read it in here and we talk about it in here.” I never understood why until 2022…. She went against the system in 2014 to show us the world and to show us what was coming. She put her job on the line for our future!!! That is a TEACHER!!
1984 is banned, Gender Queer is not.
And that she had to put her job on a line by being a teacher in school tells you something about school
@@fredlawrence8331did Fox News tell you 1984 is banned? Because it’s not.
Gender Queer, however, IS banned - and THOUSANDS of other LGBT+ books have been banned - teachers and librarians can be IMPRISONED just for mentioning their existence, and history books- literal actual history books- have been banned from Florida K-12 schools.
I know Fox News feeds you a narrative, and you believe it without question- but you should really expand your sources of information.
Everyone reads that book in high school hun
It was required reading when I was in 7th grade. In 1984
The Patriot Act is another example.
How about Single payer, Carbon Pollution or saying “investing” in place in spending.
@@anamericanentrepreneur The chosen and ordained one perhaps Gods most honest creation second only to Jesus / vengeance and retribution, grab em by the 🙀
Dictator for a day/ oxymoron. Chosen, most honest/wanting desperately needing absolute immunity 🤔
Manipulative words. A man of many words, the words loose their meaning.👈 Biblical
All true... mate! (Black Law dictionary and Maritime Law)
Federal Reserve. Not federal. Not a reserve. And the list goes on.
Orwell was a genius. I used to teach Animal Farm and 1984 to high school students. In the aftermath of 9/11 and during the American war in Iraq, teaching 1984 was extraordinarily impactful.
When students were taught something NOT socialist/Marxist ideologies and the "Cloward-Piven Strategy."
I remember Animal Farm and it scared the hell out of me. Thanks for your dedicatiin to my generation. God bless you
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I'll add that I taught in Canada so students and I had a somewhat "objective" stance on America. We weren't in the thick of it all but were close.
Commidia
"The smart way to keep the passive and obedient, is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum, even to encourage the more critical, and dissident views, that give people the sense, that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits on the range of debate" Noam Chomsky.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 by George Orwell.
I heard this a few times in court rooms
Like Biden is fit and sharp.
@@damianx1089”He is the president that has had the most amount of votes, over 80million” 😂
The most glaring example of the user of doublespeak is Mr. Donald Trump. It has been a lifelong habit for him. He has now weaponized it in a way that endangers all of us.
This describes the very nature of fox news. This is trumptards go to. He says he didn't say the things he said even though it was filmed and recorded. When you show them the reality the republican voters say, it was photoshopped, fake, red flag exercise, doctored, and edited.
You took it out of context is another one of their faves.
" if you can't dazzle them with brilliance,baffle them with bullshit."
Sounds like a streamer called “Destiny”
Reminds me of Chump.
@@richardsparks4207don’t you people get tired of perpetuating political propaganda lies for years and years on end? Geez louise. 💀
That's the motto of all professional liars.
I have heard that somewhere. Who said it?
Anyone else here in the US Navy? They can tell you that inflated language is how we write our yearly evaluations. It's kind of a running gag to make the most mundane day-to-day activities sound like finding cancer cures on a daily basis. For example: "single handedly managed the upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents" or, changing light bulbs.
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Has been going on for years-'horticultural digging implement'- 'spade', the verbosity has just increased. Never waste 10 words when 1000 would do the job.
It's everywhere
I think these companies are controlled And told to make employees to do these " Goals" to get them to BS and therefore becomes normal.
That is how we've been taught to write our job resumes. The better you make your activities look, at your past jobs, the better it makes you look as a potential employee. Or so we are told. I would say it depends on the HR person reading the resumes, but now, many companies, don't read them. They are processed through AI. So, the more flowery language is fed into AI, the more it will seem to be the standard.
When I was in my junior year of high school, I remember a spiritualist was hired to entertain us.
The audience hall was full, about 175 kids and teachers.
He proceeded to show us how he was going to hypnotize us and even told us how he would have us at his will.
Much of the audience fell into his hypnotic trance, some more deeply than others and some like myself were wide awake and not affected.
This stayed with me all my life, and now I understand many things.
Hypnotism is basically what witchcraft looks like in the real world. Alister Crowley, an actual Satan-worshipper, described magic as the ability to manipulate others. Usually motivated by the love of money (the root of all kinds of evil) witchcraft is how people end up paying for things that hurt them while rejecting free things that would help them. They allow themselves to be manipulated and deceived. In scripture, Satan’s role is that of a deceiver; he can’t force us to do anything, but people follow his ways because we let ourselves be deceived. It’s unfortunate that schools expose kids to that kind of thing. My theater teacher in high school had us lying on the ground emptying our minds, trying to “let our character take control of us.” I was the only kid who didn’t participate because it was obviously shady.
I thinks your still under the spell
Many years ago I decided to get more involved with local politics and began by listening closely to a speech given by Ontario Premier, Bill Davis, on an important current issue. He spoke for about 3 minutes and, when he was finished, all I could think was: "He said nothing concrete. Nothing but empty words wrapped around flowery positive images and a general rah-rah for us feeling." For this his party members rose to give him a standing ovation.
Same thing for me with a Bill Clinton speech. I was like, "He just talked in circles, said nothing at all, and they are all giving him a standing ovation." That began my distrust of politicians
Its all over politics. Simple phrases that sound good but have no concrete motivation is behind much of the crazy politics today. "Everyone has equal value" sounds good and is easy to agree with, but is used to motivate mass-immigration, while ignoring that most cultures on earth disagree with that very same statement - as in womens rights, gay peoples right to *_exist,_* et.c., et.c..
@useyourmind4405 Mine was seeing in clear daylight Ron Paul's policies in perfect coordination get destroyed by the media and the way people I thought were intelligent around politics were using these same talking points 24 hours later.
KH must hold the highest honours in double speak! I've never heard so much gobbledegook and b***shit in my life.
You'll have to learn how to answer a question without actually answering the question.
The line Of Machiavelli,”That only those ,who rule the State have the right to lie.”It has always stuck with me.
Cops too apparently
trump does it so well, like breathing
@@Barbara-jn2gw Found another TDS'er, hows that KKKool-aid... Mmmm,
I’ll bet you love Kamella’s word salads!!
Kamala's word salads was her secret weapon.
1984 was required reading in 6th grade when I went to school. That was just before 6th, 7th, and 8th grade was reclassified as "Middle School". It was still "Grade" School and 7th and 8th were junior high. In junior high, the reading list just got longer, and the books got bigger. Almost everyone I knew had read The Lord of The Rings by the time 9th grade english came along and Shakespeare was the requirement.
School doesn't even teach children to read anymore.
Sorry but I just don't believe you that any sixth grade teacher would have students read 1984. Animal Farm more like and you just remember it wrong. 1984 is not 6th Grade, even in places with great education programs.
They teach reading
I don't know about reading, but judging by the standards of English in these comments columns, no-one is teaching or learning how to write English with correct spelling and grammar, or to check through what they have written.
@@FlanaFugue. We read it right after Animal farm. In fact, I'm pretty sure we read it because we had just finished Animal farm in class, and someone asked what else the author had written. Now That I think about it again, You may be technically correct. It may not have been "Required" reading, more like a suggested reading if you were curious.
Back then 6Th Grade wasn't day care like it has become today. I remember really hating Drafting Class too. I really doubt they even have a drafting class these days!
"Threat to our democracy" means "threat to our autocracy"
most in America fail to even know we are a Republic rather than a democracy... the success of the brain washing is nearly perfect.
Swift and Lewis Carroll fought the same war against organised idiocy.
Organised idiocy is dangerous.
"Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
Mark Twain.
❤😂 I just had this quote in mind earlier today
Twain had some good ones.
@@paulfreed6394 Check out Ambrose Bierce, if you haven't already.
😂 that's brilliant
@@nicciebunny If you think Twain was sharp...try Ambrose Bierce, from around the same period.
Perfect for tonight's Presidential debate!
I worked for a retail store and the manager tried to make me believe that working half a day was actually a day off because I did spend time not working. So if I asked for a day off, she could reject it because I was already off 2 days in a row.
UA-cam, as well as other social media outlets, are forcing us to use euphemisms more and more. Content creatures have to use works like 'unalive' or say 'rugs' instead of drugs. They can't say sexual abuse or assault or they will get demonetized.
Undocumented immigrants. Unhoused person. I had a jail as a client and they referred to the prisoners as guests. WTF? Was I at DisneyWorld? Well, we wouldn't want to hurt the 'guests' egos'.
If family units and our educational system doesn't teach kids Critical Thinking, we are doomed to fall for all these pitfalls discussed in this video. If you refuse to have a decent conversation with anyone that has views opposing your own, how are you going to learn to strengthen your own views? We find truths by putting them to the test. Also, if you don't have an open mind to hard conversations, you are doomed, possibly, to sit in the dark in a false reality, one of your own creation or, one that has been handed to you and kept you imprisoned with it. Looking at you YT.
I wholeheartedly concur with your comment. Especially the YT language game. What is un alived? These children have gone crazy..
i had a boss that said the day before thanksgiving " we are only working a half day today" alright " 12 hours"
Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine.
@@KimberlyLetsGo
What a truly accurate explanation, Kimberly. You have nailed it. In the UK we live in a democracy ... because we are told we do. The Reality is that our human rights are being eroded on a DAILY basis by stealth. As a former Head teacher in Lambeth, I REPORTED child ab*se and was sent to 10 prisons in 12 weeks as an innocent whistleblower. There IS no Rule of Law for the masses - it's an illusion used to subjugate the masses through false hope.
@@hateferlifeWhere have you been? It’s alright, we know where you’ve been!
Every time I read or hear “threat to our democracy” I think of 1984.
Yes, Our democracy has nothing to do with you or anyone you know...
Yes we are a constitutional republic, any freedom is a threat to democracy which favors mob rule and not individual sovereignty
Reagan cut taxes what a bad example
Peterson? Another bad example
End up as the actual enemy of any democracy, an internal enemy of the Constitutional Republic of the USA.
Saying "We must save democracy" while also saying that freedom of speech is "hate speech" and your administration will "hold people accountable" for speech that you don't like.
And well-liked & respected teachers who refuse to swear an oath - in writing - to Israel get fired.
@@Research0digo you tried to change the subject with a non sequitur
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That wasn't really a _non sequitur_ .
It's a major Hoot, for Trump to claim that Democrats are "against democracy", and that he's for it!
What about when people refer to hate speech as free speech?
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
The Bible
Spirit speak.They speak in reverse. Example ❤ = hate.
@@Cat-bg2geIsaiah 5:20.
Another form of doublespeak in politics is calling out "rights", which are not mentioned in the constitution, as being attacked, while all the time attacking the rights that are actually in the constitution.
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The "right" that's exploited is the pursuit of happiness. That's subjective language, because it means different things to different people.
Very true!
@@nmbr1son64You missed the "pursuit" part. You are entitled to pursue happiness, you are not necessarily entitled to receive it. But one may pursue.
You are a slave. The constitution comes from man.
"Undocumented immigrants" is an example of doublespeak from modern politics
Good example
Musk needed to keep the word "alien" in reserve just in case.
It's literally what they are. They are immigrants who don't have travel documents. How can you see clear language yet assert it's doublespeak
@@blktarockstar818 You are the cattle they were aiming for. Immigrants who go through the legal process aren't called " documented immigrants ", there's your first clue. You are not an immigrant if you simply wash up to our shores, you have done so illegally hence you an illegal alien, the exact term used in the very federal documents used to prosecute the crime. If I posses an illegal machine gun and it's found in a search of my car, I can't simply say " but officer, that's not an illegal machine gun, but rather it's an undocumented lead delivery device ", and think the crime will go away. Quit being a mark.
@@blktarockstar818 also, take " based " out of your name, you are literally the exact inverse.
“If you can’t dazzle ‘em w/ brilliance, baffle ‘em w/ BS.”
My Dad had this on a plaque in his sales office.
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.” ~ W.C. Fields
No ess-word involved.
What did Montesquieu mean by there is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice?
The quote "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice" by Montesquieu refers to the idea that a government that abuses its power and uses the law to justify its actions is the most dangerous form of tyranny.
We sure got a taste of that here in Victoria, Australia during the COVID crisis.
In any case that quote is just gold.
Yes, because the ordinary person can't fight back when the government has has the courts, military and political leaders on its side of wrong. Even the Courts can be corrupted- the last bastion of " justice"- but where you" stack" the court like US Supreme Court you can manipulate a political ideology through the courts. Now the US can have a President who can't be charged for ANY ACTIONS EVER provided was done during the Presidency regardless if it was done with malicious intent. So now the President is above the law courtesy of the Republican stacked SupCt. So the President can even act against his own country and citizens. It's all happening in real time. EU, WEF controlling international finances all the while representing billionaires and themselves not their countries.
Now you know why so many politicians were lawyers
Are Lawyers!!!!
A lawyer once told me that his job was exploitation of inconsistencies in the English language.
Make of this what you will.
There are different ways to be a lawyer and essential to a functioning rule of law.
In case anyone is still interested in that,)
ARE lawyers
It's a business (lawyer) to save a big business and their profit,
where the most people have no ideas how the business is really working and aren't knowing the real rules, having no insights in this main contracts, don't sing up to this social contracts, but have keeping the law you must,
if not - it's not the problem of the Ruler. ;-)
Unfair games you must wondering about why you're always the victim in this game!?
Surprise.
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Surprised? 😉👈
„The World is a stage."
Shakespeare
The whole world is a Corporation.
All „Nations“ are companies, now.
Since when?
Quote:
„... Infiltration instead Invasion ...“
3 important words from the Speach of JFK , 1963,
he was warning you, his American people.
Think about:
„Trojan horse“ mechanism.
Who was infiltrating your State, and when did it happen?
If you tell a person the same lie long enough, they'll begin to believe it
Once looking into things you took for granted, you will see that it might in fact be the exact opposite. Im talking about everything you have learned.
Like men are women and women are men, children!
The Trump motto
@@anchmcleThe Harris Tactic
@@swacfan2791a fool
Anything you hear coming out of the mouth of a politician, REGARDLESS OF THE PARTY - is Doublespeak.
Even I, a Marxist, agree to this.
I would say anything in the mainstream narrative and even the alternative news is doublespeak brainwashing deep state operations.
the more "sophisticated" a person talks (and acts), the more you should question their actual knowledge and true meaning of what is said. Good communication is a skill that gets your message across unambiguously in as simple a manner as possible.
Don't call it counterfeiting money, call it "fractional reserve banking" instead
Don't call it rent, call it "property tax" instead
Don't call it debasing the currency, call it "inflation" instead
Don't call it lying to Congress, call it "misrepresented" instead
Euphemisms
Don't call them pedophiles but maps, minor attracted persons.
Now go and vote for it
These are just four examples of plain truth covered up with BS, aka, 'Doublespeak'.
I resign!
i don't simply bus tables, I'm a utensil distribution specialist
Disinfection engineer.... That way they don't have to offer insurance.
Funny you say that…where I work, our supervisor always lets us know that at one time he used to be the “assistant to the executive” etc…
I think i basically agree with those sentiments, but hey here's an unrelated thought (basically)... it would only take 40 bucks a year from each U.S. taxpayer to feed 43 million mf'ers globally and save (statistically speaking) 100% of all people per year from starving to death.. but I've never heard any pubic figure take about this. sooo.. let's do that, i propose... anybody else want to start a thing up where we care about that particular item? contact me and lmk how we can make it a thing
@@Mark_and_Family Why do you think that would be a good thing? We have problems that are the results of having too many people in places with not enough resources, we can thanks philanthropies and religious organizations for that.
Undocumented migrant.
7:10 instead of showing Jordan Peterson you should've used Neil Degrass
I like when George Carlin talks about the softening of language.
He spoke such truth on that, though. At least up until the point of him writing that routine, the softened language at least still had a degree of coherency, whereas post-internet, it's turned into je ne sais quoi. Also, as a 🐉, plumb love your profile picture 💚💚
@@JadeDragon407I watch a video of this on youtube.
Actually Post Traumatic Stress Disorder describes the disorder accurately. The veterans came home from the war strong and confident toughing it all out until months or years later having a total break down. The term PTSD has been watered down to mean any stress a person goes through after any traumatic event even witnessing an event and immediately feeling the stress afterward. That was not the original meaning of the phrase.
@@sr2291 PTSD can mean a singular event whereas C-PTSD refers to a prolonged situation. I suffer from C-PTSD from an abusive mother such that I ended up in hospital with a severe hemorrhaging ulcer requiring many transfusions, due to the ongoing stress over the years. I think it is fair to recognize both the short term trauma and the chronic trauma because in therapy they need to be approached differently.
@@l.5832 When it gets watered down then people no longer believe the more severe long term version even exists and they treat long term with short term therapies. Glad you got help.
I was in the USARMY they'd say "We (the officers) don't ever change." "That is just the way we do things." "Nothing in life is fair." If i point out that something is illegal or someone (in authority) is breaking the law, "I'll have a talk with them." "They got permission from a judge." "They have been pardoned by a judge." "Obey your chain of command." "Just do as you are told." "You are just going to have to learn that you can't always have your way." I was demanding they uphold the law. I pointed out. I am not asking for a favor.
The founders was and currently stand against a standing Army 🪖. You have be/been/being indoctrinated from state school. Say No to a standing Army 🪖. MAGA for Trump, just say No to extra spending on Defense spending. Say No to All vaccines including for your own family 🙏. 😊😊
Oh,my those were the days.I wasn't questioning nor attempting to undermine your authority.Lol
Similar experience working as a correctional officer, most go along to get along because they can’t afford to lose the job because of a mortgage and children to support. Economic bondage and fear.
Battery Commander looked out for me by utilizing Accidental Discharge
instead of Negligent Discharge !
Except the Nurenberg trials demonstrated that you can't rely on the " I was following orders" defence. Funny how they're still teaching that when they know if you are involved in illegality, no chain of command is going to save you. It's all a method of coercive control regardless of morality or illegality. So law applies to everyone unless you're a military leader or a politician but grunts can be jailed
Allowing systems of power to hijack language, to legislate what can be said, to decide what speech is allowed, or punished, is a dangerous path to go down, for it allows for the control of the uttering, and so the thoughts of the people they wish to control.
The UK right now and their hate speech laws. Literally this. And coming to a western country near you if it hasn’t already. Authoritarian Communism for all!
I read 1984 in the 1960s. My generation has seen the infancy of its truths take a foothold onto todays sad reality. Your perceptions are well expressed, but you showed your personal politics too.
Every time I hear the words "Stunning and Brave" in that exact combination, I mentally prepare myself to see someone who actually looks "insane and ugly".
Or strong and independent. Usually relying on benefits, alimony or a sugerdaddy. Or they just rely on simps who are subscribed to their onlyfans.
......or SAFE and EFFECTIVE! = "BUYER BEWARE"
Gender affirming care is doublespeak. It used to be sex change operations. This was direct and you knew what it meant. Gender affirming care can now be hormones or affirming someone’s perceived gender (that doesn’t match their sex). And this even leaves the door open for women that get plastic surgery as “gender affirming” or men getting surgery to correct gynecomastia is now “gender affirming care”. These could be “sex affirming” but they muddy the water so you get confused and think all these situations are the same
"Gender affirming" is the exact opposite of what it does
When people have to resort to using a euphemism to describe something it is because there is some reason they can't or won't call the thing what it is. When public authorities do this it is in order to conceal the true nature of the thing.
Yeah, particularly as science has proven that sex cannot be "changed" and that there are only 2 sexes...but yet in some "democratic" countries, people are being sued for stating as such.
“Staying apart keeps us together” courtesy of the Victorian Government during lockdown, straight out of the 1984 playbook
It worked, didn't it? Double boosted and heiling the supreme leader Xin Jin Andrews. WA was no better. Everyone went along as if the best times ever.
Australia is a vile hellscape-It never stopped being a prison outpost
The home of INGSOC
NZ's PM Jacinda Ardern implored Kiwis to be "calm and kind" while she cruelly made people lose their jobs and careers because they didn't want the gene therapy shot. Her government refused to allow nz citizens return to nz during the lockdowns even if they wanted to attend the funeral of a parent or spend time with a dying father.
Absolute "doublespeak". In another age they called it humbug.
@@harisdiz.5817the reality is the majority of the public prefer tyranny as long as they get to watch the tele-box and share pics of their dinner.
The perfect description of any politician, manager or CEO. We have been deceived by double speak for decades. Which is why you have to develop critical thinking. Most people do not have that ability.
"I'm sorry you feel that way" instead of "im sorry i hurt you" is my pet peeve doublespeak. Says "im sorry" but shifts the blame on YOU for "choosing" to be hurt.
Oooh me too and I always push back and say "the fault is not my FEELINGS , it's the REALITY of what you did". Shuts them up quick smart. I don't take that crap nonsense
There are “karens” out there for whom “I’m sorry you feel that way” is the least offensive, reasonable retort.
Well said . Im sorry you feel that way 'is a very aggressive statement meaning the opposite!
Not really doublespeak imo, I know someone incredibly sensitive and will often try to blame me for their feelings being hurt. For example they asked me what I had for breakfast the other day, then got upset because it was apparently something nicer than what they had. I’m not going to take responsibility for that. I am genuinely sorry they’re upset, but I’m not about to take responsibility for their oversensitivity either. Neither am I saying they’re choosing to be hurt, simply that I’m sorry that they are upset, that’s all that is meant.
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There are certain occupations that require the mastery of "double-speak" to excel.
For example: politician, lawyer, sales, conman, newscaster, etc.
Corporate managers
Law enforcement.
@@anon4kag Self proclaimed chosen and ordained one perhaps God's most honest creation second only to Jesus/ grab em by the 🙀
Finance and private equity jargon fits this definition. Words used to make the obvious profound.
Add narcassists
When the BBC described a protest in London as a mostly peaceful demonstration, which resulted in 60 police officers being hospitalised and one paralysed is a good example of doublespeak and doublethink all at the same time.
Ironically mean social media posts or hurting someone's feelings, if they aren't white, is almost terrorism in the UK. Assault a child, with friends? Sensitivity class. Complain about being replaced by hostile foreigners? The horror!
What protest?
@@mickhills6288 Any protest which the BBC approves of, just watch for the Mostly Peaceful Phrase. That is the clue.
@@peterfmodel why can't you just say it?
@@DrSpooglemon When the MSM says “Mostly peaceful protest”, it means violent protest, but I support those engaged in violence and want to spin the narrative to reduce their criminality.
Constructing reality, like how the media is “excited” by Harris for no reason and they keep using “exciting” and “excited” as buzz words.
Except we really ARE excited about her. One of her rallies in Wisconsin drew more than the population of my hometown!
@@BoecifusJones24 manufactured excitement. Blasted through the news and celebrities as a replacement for an actual message. The word “excited” is used, but nobody can say what specific change she proposed they’re excited about. They’ve just been made to be “excited” to win
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I get so frustrated hearing people turn simple concepts into long winded meanderings. I didn’t know there were terms for this type of words games so this video is great man! Very informative, thanks.
Absolutely. Good video. But I'm wondering how to avoid euphemisms. For example, in politics it is deemed necessary. You need to get support for your policies. By using euphemisms it is easier to get that support from sponsors, other politicians and the public. I honestly don't see a workaround and don't think it is always bad.
Like a Kamla Harris speech..
@@Nobody-df4is- Euphemisms are "tells," like using double negatives. When you see or hear them, know that you are being lied to.
Trying to explain why things are not as the newspeak says can make you pretty long-winded too. The "simple" words have all been redefined and co-opted, so you have to say more that that which sounds common sense to people who have accepted these redefinitions.
All the worse when your trying to point out something that went wrong long ago. I'm a Christian, and I would be an "evangelical", if you go by the old definition. But I have no intention of voting for either candidate, not the one who has promised to be what is basically a fascist, not the other sorry one, either. Now, evangelical has been vilified, just like fundamentalism was before. If I say I am a fundamentalist, it signals a love of violence, not adherence to five fundamental teachings of the Bible. After the Trumpers had their raid on the capitol building, they were called "evangelical" by the mainstream news media , nearly across the board, even though a lot of those railing, violence loving people, would tell you that they hate Jesus! Are you a Christian if you hate Jesus? So what am I supposed to call what I believe? Mainly, I just say a believer in Jesus, although we get lambasted for being "ashamed" to call ourselves Christian!
Imagine waking up in a world where words no longer mean what they seem? I did that this morning.
Grow up with a narcissist. It will give you early training.
I have been asking myself since years now how it happened that no clear and simple messages in which either just facts, intentions or opinions are mentioned no longer exist. Instead I have to work myself through an avalanche of terms in order to figure out what might be the basic message provided that it is even possible to identify one. The common explanation is that I'm dealiing with propaganda but that's too shallow. This video offers a profound analysis. Thank you for posting this. it is way overdue.
The "update" of the Smith-Mundt Act by Obama made it LEGAL to PROPAGANDIZE the American people.
“Diversity is our strength”
When I was a kid in the 80s and got spanked for "being bad", it was called discipline. Now it's abuse and everyone has PTSD.
G Orwell....if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot on a human neck forever.
Fascinating. While I'm aware of language tricks, I hadn't joined as many dots as this explanation does. What still amazes me is that so many people, (here in France) are not remotely aware that they are being spun a line, when to me it's so obvoius
Only in France?
@@annelbeab8124 no, of course not, but it's where I live and I honestly thought people would be more aware of what's really going on, given their history.
Some prefer blissful ignorance to the tyranny of actual truth.
Because you have discernment.
I love how you only show people on the right as using this and never people on the left, when speaking of double speak and shifting public perception
Well, he did show Obama.
The whole 1984 book was a critique of communism. It’s the most right-wing fictional book out there
@@trishasabrina7278 Communism is a left-wing ideology.
@@trishasabrina7278 No it wasn't. It was about potentially any totalitarian régime, partly about Soviet communism and partly about the Nazis.
@@trishasabrina7278Wdy mean ? Communism is left wing ideology
Curtis Yarvin points out what i think is the most profound example of doublespeak today: the insistence that "politicizing" an issue is a bad thing but "democratizing" is a good thing. "Democracy without Politics" is almost as Orwellian as "Slavery is Freedom"
Hmm ... this is very true and i hadn't recognized it before . Thanks !
The notion that our government is bad, the source of all our problems, has been successfuly taught thru propaganda to the masses, the intended result of this propaganda is less regulations that benifit citizens as a whole and maximizes profits for corporations and the 1%.
And yet "populism" is bad; figure that one out lol
Newspeak was just a refined form of doublespeak. The power isn't just in the language, it's in the ideas, the language as well as other media like images just expresses and spread the ideas and can distort them as well.
My new favorite
"Gender affirming care"
Yes, it’s called manipulating your perception!
@@WilcoxNotreallythere Sounds better than bodily mutilation, sterilization or something along those roads. There is a whole doublethink rabbithole behind that statement and the relating ideologies, which're causing people to VOLUNTARILY do some manner of harm to themselves, whether or not they are really aware of that.
In Ireland, our politicians are completely fluent in doublespeak. They come from other countries to brush up on deceptive talk.
Ireland Tribe of Dan
An Irish comedy trio, FOH, did a hilarious send-up of the adeptness of their political liars.
@@janelliot5643 Yes, those guys are brilliant.
Where do they come from?
But everyone here knows it. Who doesn’t see the b/s??
Yeah…spot on. Double Speak is a huge aspect of Scientology. I grew up in Scientology until I left home as a young adult. I distanced myself as best I could while still maintaining a relationship with my mother who was a 50 plus year member until her death a year ago. She was estranged from all four of her children for over 25 years. Since her death I’ve had to come to terms with the subliminal influence Scientology jargon and beliefs has had on me. The most common and consistent effects involve language. I have a bilingual thought process that has left me routinely existing with two sensibilities…one Scientology language and edicts juxtaposed with the normal real world language and sensibilities. I hadn’t fully realized I was left doing this throughout my adult life until my mother’s death triggered my full attention to what Scientology language did to my young self. This video explains how important the influence of language is on our thoughts, feelings and beliefs. This video has helped to explain some of how I was so deeply influenced and how difficult it is to fully eradicate Scientology from my reflex thoughts. Fortunately I’m able to catch myself and disregard most things Scientology. What surprises me is that it remains at all. L. Ron Hubbard was definitely Machiavellian and an expert in double speak. 🇨🇦👋
Why would they call genital mutilation “gender affirming care?” If gender is defined by genitals, “gender affirming care” would be helping someone reconcile with their genitals, which define their gender. If gender is NOT defined by genitals, then “gender affirming care” would be helping someone ignore the irrelevant implication of their genitals, which do not define their gender. Destroying a person’s genitals surgically is neither “affirming” nor “care.” It is violence.
Definitely
💯 this was one of the first things I thought of when he started giving the definition of doublespeak.
You should look up the Oxford definition for gender
Your last sentence is an example of doublespeak.
Very well said 🧐
"The pen is mightier than the sword", indeed.
Of "The penis might ier the s word."
Maga is in a pen. As I pig sty
And a bullet is deadlier than the pen.
Thatg is a misquote. The true quote is
The pen is only as mighty as the sword used to defend it.
Or, "The Pe-nis Mightier" if you're a Sean Connery SNL Jeopardy fan
This explains the Australian Government so much
I think this is relatable to politicians and beurocracy at all levels.
Not just Australia.
it's in most countries. the only exception I can think of is China
@@TeddyKrimsony LOl no
Yeah cause the last government was so honest and worked for the people. Lmao, they both suck.
In the 1980s it changed from salesclerks to sales associates, and from the personnel department to Human Resources, giving you the false sense of full partnership and of being a conditional business expense that could be tossed out at the employer’s whim at the same time.
There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven...
What if there's a bustle in your hedge row? Is it just a spring clean for the May queen?
We live in a society where, "gobbledygook" is actually the preferred form of communication.
I THOUGHT THE WORD GOBBLEDYGOOK. IS A TURKEY.
THATS LOST ITS GOBBLE. LIKE
POLITICIANS. ITS JUST A GOBBLE IN .GOBBLEDYGOOK LAND. CHEERS
Well, it turns out this UA-camr uses their own form of obfuscation @ 3:43. Since Reagan is well known for his tax cuts, part of his economic policy called "Reaganomics," I had to do some fact checking. The real story is that when Reagan's advisors tried to get him to support "revenue enhancements," Reagan resolutely resisted, saying, "Revenue enhancements are by any other name a tax increase."
except he didnt? he simply said the reagan administration not reagan himself.
Isn’t “obfuscation” illegal in Florida ?
“There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.” (George Orwell)
Your video was followed by an advert complete with every doublespeak trick you talked about
The fact we are no longer supposed to say dead or suicide or killed we are now told to say unalived. Speakers volumes to me.
no that’s just a form of self censorship that (mostly) cyoung teenagers partake in
I like UA-camr Colion Noir's term "self delete". Kinda says it all.
@@billmullins6833 no that’s just as cringe
Don't participate in the word games. Words mean things.
They're not migrants, they're ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. We're not cis, we're NORMAL. And a man can never be a woman.
Yes, when we point fingures at Russia and China, but tolerate this stuff is beyond me.
There is a term "Doublethink" in Orwell's novel, 1984. That's holding two contradictory concepts, sets of facts, etc in one's mind without realising the contradiction exists.
Today, the term 'cognitive dissonance' is sometimes used to describe doublethink, but it's not exactly the same thing.
I also recall "Newspeak" from 1984 - reducing the number of words in English, so there's less possibility to articulate dissent, or to discuss political, scientific, philosophical or historical matters.
In reality, pairs of similar words are being smooshed together to mean the same thing.
There are no fewer words in the language, but fewer distinctions of meaning, and many more (now) redundant duplicate words meaning the same things, but with correspondingly less precision and nuance.
A fine point, I know…but: there is no meaning in words. The meaning is all in the sociocultural memory you have evolved since first becoming conscious. これは橋です is a perfectly formed sentence in the Japanese language-as-code. All language is a code used to unlock sociocultural memory. Bot moct is also a perfectly formed sentence, in the Russian language-as-code. Esto es un puente is a perfectly formed sentence in the Spanish language-as-code. The point is that every string of sound-shapes (in English we call them words but in some languages, such as Japanese and Braille, they are pictographs (shapes) or prominences on a surface, used to represent ideas) represents an ordinarily understood sociocultural memory…of a bridge. All three strings are the same as the English language-as-code sentence: This is a bridge. This example is used in linguistics to demonstrate that meaning is not in the language-as-code. It’s in and only in the sociocultural memory of an individual. That meaning is unlocked by a relevant language-as-code, one understood by the individual. The manufacture of consent, the manipulation of language, typically result in manipulation of meaning in the minds of individuals. The more an idea is repeated, the more prominent it is in sociocultural memory (forgetting is a lack of sufficient repetition and reinforcement). This is one reason literacy in schooling is vitally important. Without sociocultural memory predicated on broad and repeated experiences, and critical thought, language can only unlock less and less, forming intellectual servant to the ideas of the literate and manipulative.
@petertrebilco9430. So everything you just said was totally meaningless.
@@GonRogue-85 Correct. You give it meaning… So, if it is still meaningless, my dear friend, you need a moment of introspection to question why your sociocultural memory is so shallow.
Orwell had never been to Russia. In '1984' he described what he experienced at the BBC. Just a random fact.
In Orwell's lifetime much was already known about totalitarian states and their use of information as a means of control. The Berlin wall had not yet been built when 1984 was published. What was happening in Soviet controlled territory was no secret, and the memory of Hitler's rise to power was fresh in the public's mind.
he used everything he knew and had experienced in his life. not just one place/source. it's his Meisterwerk.
When I sit and watch this video I realise that I need to do it again and again to understand the concepts at hand. A few things come to mind at first listening, “Simulacra et Simulation” is one and time is the other. Words and meanings have context in the timeframe they are expressed. The phrases used to describe horrors of war being an example. If you think about “shell shock”, it was used to describe only small amount of people at the front end of brutal trench warfare, the rest of the population was oblivious to the horrors. Role time forward and the referencing frame changes as do the same words, except they change to describe the condition as PTSD and then they also use it to describe a wide array of conditions affecting masses of people. Time and context ! Anyway, most humans are children who can’t handle the truth.
In my opinion, the scariest part about 1984 is that the path to that world isn't ever stated, and that the easiest way to get there is to simply convince the population to go there by themselves.
We are willingly going into 1984 and nobody seems to care, or is blaming the "opposing team"
The one thing Orwell got wro'g was that there wouldn't be a single party. There would be two "opposing" parties that everyone thought were competing for power, but in reality served the same interests
the two-party system is built on doublethink
My favourite example of inflated language is “sandwich artist”.
How about “ Porn Star”
In Jerry Rubin's book Revolution for the Hell of It, he explained how terms used in the value-system revolution were absorbed and de-powered by the establishment to continue profitable false values. Examples: "a revolution in haircare", "it's good for you naturally" (co-opting the return to more natural food), "it costs a little more, but I'm worth it" (ripping off the Women's Movement).
An example of double-think, I think, is calling a missile a "peacekeeper" or "peacemaker". Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were more than Yippies portrayed in movies as frivolous.
They have changed the name of The Military Industrial Complex to "The defense industrial base" lately. (Sorry for spamming, just get excited about this, very interesting stuff here.)
When was this- under Joetato’s reign? Two 🪽 🪽 regardless, just wondering.
The dept of war was changed to dept of Defense I believe the same year the cia was created. 1953
@@poempadgett4664 I am not sure, I heard the word when some politician was talking about the 113 B the US had given to Ukraine, the money was given to the Defense Industrial Base.
@@christiansgrignoli3351 wouldn't it be great if they just used words like "Warlord" instead of General Secretary of Nato etc. He said literally "the way to peace is sending more weapons to Ukraine." That is like saying War is Peace
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Well, like Facebook, I’m probably going to steal these lines.
Most because, like Rome, I’ve never had an original idea.😆
The correct word is doubletalk. Orwell never mentioned "doublespeak." This is a confusion arising from his terms "newspeak" and "doublethink."
True. And Double Standards are very Talmudic and Kabalistic. Well promoted by rabbis.
Honestly I think that’s splitting hairs. Also “double talk” doesn’t roll off the tongue. Sounds cumbersome to say. And I think that’s why nobody says it.
You may not't know this because you're probably a young whippershnapper, but throughout the 20th century the expression "double talk" was very common, referring to a person who was deceitful or said things to purposely muddy the waters (i.e., a crooked politician, etc.). I NEVER saw "doublespeak" written or said until about 25 or 30 years ago.
Yes, I'm a seasoned citizen, grew up with the term "double-talk." Simple and clear.
"Double-speak" is very new; it sounds like an artificial contrivance.
Doublethink
In the military 'friendly fire' is the accidental murder of a fellow soldier.
Imagine you have been told over and over again that "we can unburden what it has been", if you have to listen to that for 4 years, that should be considered crime to humanity!
"Mistakes were made", first heard in 1987 from Reagan on the Iran-Contra affair. "Ethnic Cleansing", basically genocide, came from the 1990's former Yugoslavia "conflict", and a translation of the Serbo-Croatian language. From the Japanese Samurai, "Invite them Onward", for murder or war killing.
"Mistakes were made" is a past-passive exonerative. Feel free to use that.
When a Teacher Aide became an Educational Technician with no change in actual job duties. When an Assistant Manager became a Management Support Specialist. On and on it goes
And housewives became domestic engineers while secretaries became administrative assistants. So complicated now.
Employees became associates.
Room cleaner becomes a "facility manager"
It’s meant to deceive.
Almost all titles to U.S. statutes are composed of political doublespeak. For example, the federal statute usually referred to as "Obamacare" is titled "The Affordable Care Act." Since its enactment this law has continuously and immensely increased the costs of medical care.
Who gains the most with higher costs, who loses the most if we had united free healthcare? Stop making healthcare political to enrich the corporate healthcare industry.
Not for my family, in fact quite the opposite
As it was designed to do.
@@robertaw3204 There is no such thing as free healthcare, or "free" any services or products unless you want to bring slavery back.
@@brucepoole8552 that's because someone else has to pay for your "free" stuff.
The Prince, written by Niccolo Machiavelli, should be mandatory reading for high school seniors. George Orwell’s book 1984 should also be mandatory. It was required reading when I was in high school 40 years ago.
"The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children." - Kamala Harris
All those words but absolutely hollow. When I see people falling for it because they're scared shitless they might lose their right to abor+ion, I feel like I'm in some insane parallel universe or a bad dream.
@@ArisEmriis They aren't "absolutely" hollow, it's easy to see what she's saying; she just really got lost in politician-speak on that one,--which most politicians do when they talk publicly.
Well done. Clearly you know your Machiavelli. Quoting out of context is the most effective form of double-speak because it puts the opponent on the defensive in the listener’s mind
@@glasperlinspielWhat did you fall out of a coconut tree?
People still defending this double-speak is probably the best part. As the narrator said people just give politicians the pass because they're politicians and can bs as much as they want.
The old "Personnel Department" is now "Human Resources Department". The old "Clerk" became "Clerical Officer" then "Administrative Services Officer".
Every Walmart worker is an associate.
I’m far more afraid of a world with governments than a world without them.
This is ridiculous logic... your options include "good" government and not just the nightmare presented in this video, and obviously good government is much better than barbarianism... and is largely the reason we're not still raiding each other locally (for the most part).
@@apelikethe only reason you think that is because you are on the side of the winning government.
zero-summing is Orwellian, by the way
A euphemism used by GW Bush is "acceptable collateral damage" meaning innocent people who die from actions. This concept is also used by some people who pride themselves on wanting to change things with the use of violence.
"It is easier to fool the People than convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain
Imagine a world were Truth is not a bad thing.
Than 🙄
Please fix the quote, read how using "then" destroys the meaning of the quote while "than" (and removing the comma) captures the funny but at the same time sad, point.
It's more difficult to remove programming once a person has been programmed.
We’re substantially beyond 1984!
For one, they got us addicted to those flat beeping things everyone carries around.
It's a leash with multi-spies included.
@@a.randomjack6661 You got it right.
You missed the opportunity to actually give us clips or quotes for every one of the definitions you enunciated. You gave us silent pics that implied they were examples.
This is America, stupid. The longer the video, the more people click away. :(
Due to years of stress and burnout, I have lost the ability to "see" words or images in my head, my inner vision. It's a phenomenon called aphantasia and I thought I was alone with the condition until I googled around and read up on it.
This makes double speak even more exhausting for me, it's almost as having become autistic as an adult. Words that used to awaken memories, associations and emotions no longer have any "value".
In my youth I used to have an extremely sharp intellect, I could easily read a paper, a novel or a book and remember the story, the content, the characters and the main points and tell the next person about what I'd read, what it was about and how it made me feel or think and even engage in an argument or a discussion about it.
Nowadays I can't read a book because when I come to the end of a sentense, I no longer remember what I just read. My mind is completely blank. So listening to for example a conversation or a debate with Jordan Peterson and Russell Brand is completely pointless.
Not only because they engage in intellectual masturbation but because I simply cannot follow along anymore. It all disappears and becomes meaningless, it's as if words don't mean anything anymore, they have become mere sounds that come and disappear like smoke. No lasting impact.
I'm 52 years old and can't remember anything in my life, both short term and long term memory is gone. Yet, I don't have dementia, and an MRI brain scan showed nothing wrong, but it's a living hell. No thoughts, no emotions, no memories.
So I believe there is an agenda with the double speak and the age of constant flow of information. Not only to confuse us, but to make us too mentally exhausted to resist.
When I was in college, I enrolled in a self paced math class. Understanding the jargon of such was a mind boggling challenge. My daughter who was in fifth grade, shared her text book with me. I finished the course in THREE days.
Lol, that's telling. My first college course was argumentation and critical thinking. It set me up to take on all the challenges of adult communication.
To the creator of this video.
Double speak.
1 A woman's right to choose.
2 Gender affirming care.
Do you see this as double speak?
I do.
Now how do we convince this to the people that repeat this?
Is it gender affirming care when dudes take testosterone to make themselves feel like "real" men?..Asking for a weak friend, obviously.
There you go again, contextless assertion. 😂
how is a "woman's right to choose" doublespeak?
Nonsense
@@FlanaFugue I agree this isn't doublespeak, but framing. The contra-side of the argument is "an unborn babies right to live", or "a loyal husbands right to not lose XYZ"
DoubleSpeak defies definition to the unwary.
In the service of the State, it is how corporate media shapes the narrative and most people are oblivious.
The newest form of doublespeak that has come to the forefront is the phenomenon of "Word Salad". The technique of using a few words or a phrase repeatedly in a sentence, often rearranging them to make it sound like you're expanding on your thought and making a point when you're not.
Take this gem from Kamala Harris for example (I tried to add punctuation as best as I could.) :
"I think it's very important (as you have heard from so many incredible leaders) for us at every moment in time-and certainly this one-to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present; and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future."
Yeah. That was a real sing she said. Out loud. In front of people. 🤦♂️
She is just failing at putting something eloquently. Nothing Orwellian there or even bullshit-driven...
You really want to get pissed about it, legal murder for convenience, labeled as “health” care!! Think about it. Since they do this, they will do ANYTHING!
1:19 - that man is Prof. Willam Lutz. He wrote the books "Doublespeak" and "Doublespeak 2".
He was also my English literature professor at RU-C. I had him for two courses. Very smart man, unafraid to ask you questions the knock you off your pedestal and start critical thinking.
He never mentioned the books in class..EVER. Stuck to the classics of Greek/Roman and later Middle Ages literature.
I only learned after i graduated that he wrote these, and read them eagerly.
He was an EDUCATOR, not a TEACHER (you know the difference in 2024) and will be missed.
teachers are educators??
@@FlanaFugue no. they are different. Teachers tell you WHAT to think. Educators show you HOW to think.
The minute we get back to the Agora and eliminate the dept. of education, we might get smarter kids.
@@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 okay, not all teachers are educators... but some of my best teachers taught me how to think, and they would have me question the dogmaticism with which you ensure that simply by reshuffling names on government offices we will solve the problem of having stupid American children.... it will take A LOT MORE than that, my friend.
I don’t think Jordan Peterson’s intent is to obscure or try to sound intelligent. If anything he speaks a lot about how he doesn’t know what something means and often uses many words as he struggles to grasp the subject. To me it appears he tries to show what the process of true learning looks like.
I think that's a great analysis of him. He takes the scenic route when getting to the point.
Jordan at times engages in the very post modernism claptrap that he rails against. He certainly tends to obfuscate in so much that he'll be willing to tie up a conversation with gobbledygook, jargon, and euphemisms.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Albert Einstein.
I do like Peterson, but that doesn't mean he's beyond criticism for some of his rambling takes.
Well, Petersen is an absolute genius! When he’s introduced to a new concept, he’s an expert on it in just a couple of weeks!☝🏻💡🤡
Putting up Peterson and Trump and Regan as examples of double-speak, in July 2024, really says something about the author, IMO.
@@AfroGaz71 Peterson admits that post-modern philosophy has some things correct. It's the application that he seems to disagree with.
So, if he falls into a post modern view, then that is because post-modernism is not entirely incorrect.
You showed images of Jordan Peterson in the context of using obscure, obfuscatory, & esoteric words (