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Is the election already over? In a short piece titled “Media-driven Political Insanity” at American Thinker, Joanna Rosamund begins:
Psycholinguistics
and cognitive science have long been interested in linguistic relativity – the
concept that language influences way of thinking. George Orwell, the
author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, also considered: “But if thought corrupts
language, language can also corrupt thought.” In the dystopian
novel, Orwell depicted a totalitarian state using controlled language and
“thought-crime” charges to keep people from thinking. Throughout history,
real-life dictatorships have been known to “pre-define” reality via meaningless
slogans, political correctness, and punishment of cerebral dissent.
The fact that
several months before elections we are constantly told that a candidate has
already won definitely rings an alarm bell. Orwellian “Newspeak”
morphed today into NewsSpeak, with the mainstream media acting as thought
police. While we are being nonchalantly reminded about a long list of
observable crimes that go unpunished, the media cheer those crimes’ authors and
try to contaminate us with the “enthusiasm.” One can’t help but notice
how visionary Orwell’s
writing was: “[s]o much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with
fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
Where did ol’
good logic go? The processes used in thinking and reasoning should be
natural to homo sapiens, and it’s impossible not to have a brain-ache when you
clearly see that it´s not the case.
Read the rest here.
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