George Orwell predicted “Newspeak”, but it was Right-Wing politicians, conservative cable news hosts, and social media which gave it life …
“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc (English Socialism) but to make all other modes of thought impossible.”
— 1984 — APPENDIX: The Principles of Newspeak, George Orwell
For a large, angry mob obsessed with allegedly upholding the U.S. Constitution, losing their freedom, Communism, fighting equal rights, and stifling voting rights, it’s rather curious that so many adherents of the new American Conservatism — Trumpism — have become such ardent “English Socialists” with a penchant for the linguistic gymnastics that make up George Orwell’s authoritarian “Newspeak”.
But, then again, Orwell, the noted author, and anti-authoritarian Cassandra turned out to be a right-wing snitch who in 1949 accused 38 British public figures of being Communists or “fellow travelers”, spilling the beans to a semi-secret British government propaganda unit called, appropriately enough, the Information Research Department.
