veiws of todays bullshit propaganda

butcher · Jun 27, 2010

Nobody ↑ :

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, “I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so.” Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:

"While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement."

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were instinctively, to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find—this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify—that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years as a result of dictatorship.

Click to expand...

sauce: Orwell, G., 'Politics and the English Language'

Bentheanarchist · Aug 16, 2011

Milan said:

I really hate to see how immigrants are being treated in the USA...

The Netherlands have a reputation of complete tolerance. it isn't true for a long time anymore,
xenofobia was all around in the '90s... but things weren't too bad at all until Geert Wilders started his own political party.
Nationalism is on the rise, muslims are being discriminated...

it sure is a sick world...

Click to expand...

I browsed youtube and found a Xenophobic, Anti-Muslim, Nationalist idiot named Pat Condell who exists to insult Atheists with his hate and rascism.

Anarchist News

Log in / Register

Log in or Sign up

Political debates

veiws of todays bullshit propaganda

butcher Experienced Member Uploader Experienced member Forum Member

Bentheanarchist Experienced Member Uploader Experienced member

check out 'Todays Lesson' anarchopunk radio show!!

Anarchist News

Log in / Register

Useful Searches

veiws of todays bullshit propaganda

butcher Experienced Member Uploader Experienced member Forum Member

Bentheanarchist Experienced Member Uploader Experienced member

check out 'Todays Lesson' anarchopunk radio show!!