“There’s something wrong with the world today, I don’t know what it is, there’s something wrong with our eyes… we’re seeing things in a different way and God knows it ain’t his, there’s meltdown in the skies…” Aerosmith “Living on the Edge”
The edge of what?
Things sure look different every day… and the same… like the Doublespeak in the book 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell wrote the book 1984 sounding the alarm in the West about the dangers of communism and the lengths government will go to increase, sustain and maintain their power. Probably the most important message of 1984 is the control of language.
An older saying is, “a sign of a profane mind is a profane mouth”. Interestingly, the more archaic definition of profane is ignorant or unknowledgeable. A person that spoke with a profane mouth spoke with ignorance. Today’s language defines profane as blasphemous, disrespectful, or a ‘dirty mouth’. Our language has been consistently debased (like our currency). Change the definition of words and terms, you can change the understanding of ideas and philosophies. Our government knows if you can control the questions, the answers do not really matter.
In the book 1984, the government uses a term: “Newspeak”, which is the government’s way of changing the structure of language. Their goal is to alter and control the language allowing them to get rid of the words and concepts that cause people to consider disobedience or rebellion. Sounds very “politically correct,” doesn’t it?
This concept goes hand in hand with another concept in the book, “Doublethink” – the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time. Sound familiar? Human brains do not have the capacity to maintain to contradictory thoughts as truth at one time. We have a term for people that do this – insanity.
Let me give you an example pulled from this week’s U.S. Government newest act.
US Government Doublespeak/Newspeak:
On Wednesday the Fed said it would buy $300 billion worth of longer term treasuries over the next 6 months to help improve the conditions in private credit markets. They said, “To provide greater support to mortgage lending and housing markets, the committee decided to increase the size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet further by purchasing up to an additional $750 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities. “Fed to buy $1 trillion in securities to aid economy," reports the New York Times. "The Fed is engaging in massive quantitative easing," said William Poole, former head of the St. Louis Fed. This all sounds rational and good, doesn’t it. Since most mortgage rates are based on the 10 year Treasury, they are trying to drive rates down since they haven't been falling with the traditional Fed rate cuts. Former St. Louis Fed president Poole said "We are not even close to the bottom and
therefore the Fed is engaging in a massive quantitative easing. We still have a very serious recession in front of us."
Plain Talk:
We (US Government and Federal Reserve) have injected an unprecedented amount of money into the U.S. economy over the past several months. We have paid off all of the major banks and lending institutions and guaranteed they cannot fail. This has been done at the expense of (and to be paid for by) the American taxpayer. In order to win support for this massive socialization ploy, we have structured it so that is appears not all of the American people are having to participate in this “bail out”. As our current President has declared that no one making under $200,000 (give or take a few thousand dollars) will have to bear the cost, we will try to pay for these massive expenditures by raising taxes on the producers and hide the rest of the expense with inflated dollars that increase tax payments to us (U.S).
By purchasing U.S. Treasury notes with money we printed to buy the U.S. Treasuries we will (of course) face the brutal reality of seriously rising inflation in consumer goods. The problematic side effect of a rapid increase in the supply of money is inflation (more dollars chasing the same amount of goods and services). To offset the immediate effect of the inflation we are going to stagger the purchase of the Treasuries over the next six months. By doing this, we hope (against all odds) the economy will pick up and people will go back to work. IF they do, they will be happy to pay higher prices because at least now, they have a job.
IF the economy does not pick up, we will go to Plan B (whatever that is).
Incidentally, most people do not know that George Orwell was a “died in the wool” socialist that hated Stalin and the Russian perversion of his beloved “socialism”. He fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the socialists. Even with Orwell’s warnings and admonitions against totalitarianism in Animal Farm and 1984 – he never comprehended the truth that the transition from socialism to totalitarianism is only the amount of time it takes for the “power mongers” to dupe the masses and to take control.
It is amazing that Orwell could write incredible tales about the dangers of totalitarianism and never realize that his brand of socialism is just a pre-curser to his hated “totalitarianism”. Control of words and oppression of rights are the ultimate and necessary result of control by the state.
We must never allow others to usurp our personal authority; by relinquishing responsibility for our lives, we relinquish our lives. We must control ourselves and know we are responsible for our own security. As soon as we let another person or group do this for us, we erode our freedoms and the power of our own control (self determination).
As committed believers in liberty, we must continue to fight this battle every day. This is not a battle of guns and ammunition; this is a battle of words, thoughts, concepts and ideologies. If we don’t win that battle, we may end up in a war of guns and ammunition.
The previous (and only) war of guns and ammunition fought in this country (The War Between the States) was devastating and horrendous… please let us never go that way again.
So there is your book report and history lesson for the day, all wrapped up in one.
With warmth and regards (as always),
Allen
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