The War on Words: The Orwellian Agenda to Control Thought by Limiting Language

In Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, the totalitarian government made dissent impossible by creating Newspeak, a highly controlled language that suppresses specific ideas. This is happening now. Here are three real-life examples of elite organizations pushing the banning of words from public speech. Published 5 days ago on December 13, 2021 ByVigilant Citizen These days, the word “Orwellian” is being thrown around everywhere because, sadly, it is more relevant than ever. That’s because some of the most oppressive elements found in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four are becoming reality right before our eyes. The totalitarian state described in Nineteen Eighty-Four controls people through a number of mind-bending methods. One of them is Newspeak – a controlled language. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual’s ability to think and articulate “subversive” concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will. Such concepts are criminalized as thoughtcrime since they contradict the prevailing Ingsoc orthodoxy.– Wikipedia, Nineteen Eighty-Four To the elite, Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a cautionary tale, it is a blueprint. A real-life version of Newsp[...x]