War is an essential integral part for such a tightly controlled society to exist.
War provides the framework. It employs the working class, revving up the economy without providing any increased comfort to the population. Military production produces value only once the products are blown up. So everything remains bleak with frequent shortages, to keep the proletarian/working class on a tight leash.
Which should alert us given all the war economies revving up all around.
I have noted the increasingly militarized academic vocabulary since around 2015. I started to trace the language used. How they loved to “interrogate” & “deconstruct” etc… at the same time verbs were pointed backwards, one was to: re/think; re/view; re/set, re/constitute etc… if there’s an action it is re/versed. So also with “de” words, like de/colonize — easy, just wipe colonization away. And all those words that lost all agency, “ity” words, accountability, complicity, intentionality no one there to account for, it is just a state of being. Looming hugely on it all was Climate! Just as we are literally drowning, up to our collective necks in garbage, we are to obsess over ‘Climate’ — what was gained and what was lost by having shifted the discourse away from pollution, emissions, toxic spills, the War Machine, big Pharma/Argo, the polluters, extractors & plunderers ... to ‘climate’?! Who profits? I wondered…
Language is indeed the battlefield in this topic. Transgenderism uses word-salads to propaganadize their demonic & demented Agendas
I'm really looking forward to this!
(But I haven't read 1984 in a long time. I hope that doesn't matter too much.)
So wish I could have attended this but my children arenhome from college for the summer.
I created a bumper sticker for my cart that says: Make Orwell Fiction Again 😉
War is an essential integral part for such a tightly controlled society to exist.
War provides the framework. It employs the working class, revving up the economy without providing any increased comfort to the population. Military production produces value only once the products are blown up. So everything remains bleak with frequent shortages, to keep the proletarian/working class on a tight leash.
Which should alert us given all the war economies revving up all around.
I have noted the increasingly militarized academic vocabulary since around 2015. I started to trace the language used. How they loved to “interrogate” & “deconstruct” etc… at the same time verbs were pointed backwards, one was to: re/think; re/view; re/set, re/constitute etc… if there’s an action it is re/versed. So also with “de” words, like de/colonize — easy, just wipe colonization away. And all those words that lost all agency, “ity” words, accountability, complicity, intentionality no one there to account for, it is just a state of being. Looming hugely on it all was Climate! Just as we are literally drowning, up to our collective necks in garbage, we are to obsess over ‘Climate’ — what was gained and what was lost by having shifted the discourse away from pollution, emissions, toxic spills, the War Machine, big Pharma/Argo, the polluters, extractors & plunderers ... to ‘climate’?! Who profits? I wondered…