Orwell's Warning: The Insidious Nature of Political Language

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  • čas přidán 29. 08. 2024

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  • @WarDogLRS
    @WarDogLRS Před měsícem +1718

    “When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
    ― Edward Snowden

    • @lilblackduc7312
      @lilblackduc7312 Před měsícem +50

      So, I'm not the only one who posts that in comments!

    • @Muppetslayer153
      @Muppetslayer153 Před měsícem

      Truthful reporting cost Julian Assange 10 of “house arrest” to avoid life imprisonment for legally reporting crimes of the US government was a real “Shining City on a Hill” moment for US historians.

    • @daddylonglegs2010
      @daddylonglegs2010 Před měsícem

      As Gary Waterman has found out recently.

    • @stanleykania7184
      @stanleykania7184 Před měsícem +27

      Police are out of control

    • @catalhuyuk7
      @catalhuyuk7 Před měsícem

      As Billy Jack stated, “When policemen break the law, then there isn't any law - just a fight for survival”

  • @WarDogLRS
    @WarDogLRS Před měsícem +1051

    “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

    • @Jennifer-bs6oy
      @Jennifer-bs6oy Před měsícem +11

      Like the maga people
      I believe I could never be brain washed or hypnotized

    • @chrismckell5353
      @chrismckell5353 Před měsícem +52

      ​@@Jennifer-bs6oyPeople who believe that they cannot be fooled are often the most easily fooled.

    • @karloaquinde3476
      @karloaquinde3476 Před měsícem +10

      ​@@chrismckell5353
      Indeed.

    • @lanagordon5669
      @lanagordon5669 Před měsícem +32

      @@Jennifer-bs6oybefore pointing the finger at others a wise person reflects on their own beliefs and behaviours. Using MAGA as a scapegoat for everything wrong with the US is totally missing the point and why Trump will probably win the next election. Good job!

    • @trickywoo5165
      @trickywoo5165 Před měsícem

      ⁠@@Jennifer-bs6oyyou were easily fooled “maga people” lol drumph supporter’s aren’t our problem, it’s several pay grades above any stupid maga person

  • @raydunn2582
    @raydunn2582 Před měsícem +128

    Many years ago I decided to get more involved with local politics and began by listening closely to a speech given by Ontario Premier, Bill Davis, on an important current issue. He spoke for about 3 minutes and, when he was finished, all I could think was: "He said nothing concrete. Nothing but empty words wrapped around flowery positive images and a general rah-rah for us feeling." For this his party members rose to give him a standing ovation.

    • @useyourmind4405
      @useyourmind4405 Před 26 dny +8

      Same thing for me with a Bill Clinton speech. I was like, "He just talked in circles, said nothing at all, and they are all giving him a standing ovation." That began my distrust of politicians

    • @herpederpe4320
      @herpederpe4320 Před 26 dny +3

      Its all over politics. Simple phrases that sound good but have no concrete motivation is behind much of the crazy politics today. "Everyone has equal value" sounds good and is easy to agree with, but is used to motivate mass-immigration, while ignoring that most cultures on earth disagree with that very same statement - as in womens rights, gay peoples right to *_exist,_* et.c., et.c..

    • @noahziegler3478
      @noahziegler3478 Před 25 dny +6

      ​@useyourmind4405 Mine was seeing in clear daylight Ron Paul's policies in perfect coordination get destroyed by the media and the way people I thought were intelligent around politics were using these same talking points 24 hours later.

    • @yvonnebyrne7628
      @yvonnebyrne7628 Před 25 dny

      KH must hold the highest honours in double speak! I've never heard so much gobbledegook and b***shit in my life.

    • @aaronbuckmiller4728
      @aaronbuckmiller4728 Před 24 dny +3

      You'll have to learn how to answer a question without actually answering the question.

  • @michaelogrady232
    @michaelogrady232 Před 2 měsíci +1663

    I remember Henry Kissinger saying that unless we understood Macchiavelli we had no idea what was going on behind the scene. So I bought a copy of The Prince. The one part that really stood out to me was the dynamic between the weak Prince and the powerful Minister. Since then it has become obvious to me that no matter how many times our elected officials are changed, the agenda keeps moving forward, and the distinction between political parties is a distinction without a difference.

    • @relly793
      @relly793 Před měsícem +103

      I think you need to understand Israel to understand what’s going on behind the scenes

    • @genericascanbe3728
      @genericascanbe3728 Před měsícem +56

      May I suggest the 48 Laws of Power as well? It also provides much insight. I read both.

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem +55

      You can't see a difference between the two US parties? Two-sides Fallacy (also, Teach the Controversy): The presentation of an issue that makes it seem to have two sides of equal weight or significance, when in fact a consensus or much stronger argument supports just one side. Also called “false balance” or “false equivalence.”

    • @T_D_B_
      @T_D_B_ Před měsícem +54

      ​@M.J.212 it should be obvious he was referring to difference in outcomes... no matter the place holder, the agenda doesn't change. Get it?

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem

      @@T_D_B_ There's a painfully obvious difference. Until recent SCOTUS rulings bribery after the fact wasn't considered a gratuity, making unfettered corporate pollution and cancer great again, nobody's above the law with the exception of presidents for "official acts." Etc...... 🤔

  • @patrickday4206
    @patrickday4206 Před 2 měsíci +1007

    1984 was supposed to be a warning. Instead it has become a guide

    • @WilcoxNotreallythere
      @WilcoxNotreallythere Před měsícem +25

      It was a warning. Unfortunately the ship that was headed everyone's way was below the radar and too big to stop.

    • @ericwillis777
      @ericwillis777 Před měsícem +7

      @@patrickday4206 Astute comment

    • @Darthdoodoo
      @Darthdoodoo Před měsícem +16

      I believe the people who are doing this hve written out methods and they share with each other so it is literally a guide

    • @donalddon5
      @donalddon5 Před měsícem

      It was a stolen book from Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We and George other book Dystopian fiction can be traced back to Jack London's 1907 novel 'The Iron Heel....of course being 1984 was about socialism/communism and fits the United States perfectly today, speaks volumes of our current culture.

    • @jobob47
      @jobob47 Před měsícem +11

      nope. it was predictive programming.

  • @franksullivan1873
    @franksullivan1873 Před měsícem +142

    The line Of Machiavelli,”That only those ,who rule the State have the right to lie.”It has always stuck with me.

    • @ThirtytwoJ
      @ThirtytwoJ Před měsícem +5

      Cops too apparently

    • @Barbara-jn2gw
      @Barbara-jn2gw Před měsícem +5

      trump does it so well, like breathing

    • @phubarnow5388
      @phubarnow5388 Před měsícem

      @@Barbara-jn2gw Found another TDS'er, hows that KKKool-aid... Mmmm,

    • @mikefrancis8223
      @mikefrancis8223 Před 27 dny +4

      I’ll bet you love Kamella’s word salads!!

    • @marciamartins1992
      @marciamartins1992 Před 24 dny

      Kamala's word salads was her secret weapon.

  • @sang3Eta
    @sang3Eta Před měsícem +405

    "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 by George Orwell.

    • @MarK-gr3xp
      @MarK-gr3xp Před měsícem +6

      I heard this a few times in court rooms

    • @damianx1089
      @damianx1089 Před měsícem +25

      Like Biden is fit and sharp.

    • @alfredonski
      @alfredonski Před měsícem +12

      @@damianx1089”He is the president that has had the most amount of votes, over 80million” 😂

    • @logicrealitytruth
      @logicrealitytruth Před měsícem +1

      The most glaring example of the user of doublespeak is Mr. Donald Trump. It has been a lifelong habit for him. He has now weaponized it in a way that endangers all of us.

    • @jamesjohnson3910
      @jamesjohnson3910 Před měsícem

      This describes the very nature of fox news. This is trumptards go to. He says he didn't say the things he said even though it was filmed and recorded. When you show them the reality the republican voters say, it was photoshopped, fake, red flag exercise, doctored, and edited.
      You took it out of context is another one of their faves.

  • @RamonaMcKean
    @RamonaMcKean Před měsícem +251

    Orwell was a genius. I used to teach Animal Farm and 1984 to high school students. In the aftermath of 9/11 and during the American war in Iraq, teaching 1984 was extraordinarily impactful.

    • @lilblackduc7312
      @lilblackduc7312 Před měsícem +12

      When students were taught something NOT socialist/Marxist ideologies and the "Cloward-Piven Strategy."

    • @bobbybranham4830
      @bobbybranham4830 Před měsícem +14

      I remember Animal Farm and it scared the hell out of me. Thanks for your dedicatiin to my generation. God bless you

    • @RamonaMcKean
      @RamonaMcKean Před měsícem

      ​@@bobbybranham4830🩷

    • @RamonaMcKean
      @RamonaMcKean Před měsícem +9

      I'll add that I taught in Canada so students and I had a somewhat "objective" stance on America. We weren't in the thick of it all but were close.

    • @LibertarianRF
      @LibertarianRF Před měsícem

      Commidia

  • @paulduhamel5050
    @paulduhamel5050 Před měsícem +181

    Anyone else here in the US Navy? They can tell you that inflated language is how we write our yearly evaluations. It's kind of a running gag to make the most mundane day-to-day activities sound like finding cancer cures on a daily basis. For example: "single handedly managed the upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents" or, changing light bulbs.

    • @rosih.5716
      @rosih.5716 Před měsícem +3

      😂😂😂

    • @terenceretter5049
      @terenceretter5049 Před měsícem +10

      Has been going on for years-'horticultural digging implement'- 'spade', the verbosity has just increased. Never waste 10 words when 1000 would do the job.

    • @melissavalentine9771
      @melissavalentine9771 Před měsícem +3

      It's everywhere

    • @melissavalentine9771
      @melissavalentine9771 Před měsícem +3

      I think these companies are controlled And told to make employees to do these " Goals" to get them to BS and therefore becomes normal.

    • @big120treez
      @big120treez Před 27 dny +7

      That is how we've been taught to write our job resumes. The better you make your activities look, at your past jobs, the better it makes you look as a potential employee. Or so we are told. I would say it depends on the HR person reading the resumes, but now, many companies, don't read them. They are processed through AI. So, the more flowery language is fed into AI, the more it will seem to be the standard.

  • @jonncockrell3606
    @jonncockrell3606 Před měsícem +720

    1984 was 40 years ago. We are way past that kind of primitive fascism. It's much worse than Orwell ever dreamed.

    • @brianpead3692
      @brianpead3692 Před měsícem

      @@jonncockrell3606 I am a fan of Orwell's writing, but let's not forget Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World in which the masses will come to love their enslavement with daily deliveries to their door, 24x7 porn, 24x7 sport, 24x7 medicines etc etc. People no longer march in the streets because - although their human rights are being eroded on a DAILY basis - they're getting what they want anyway.

    • @sustainablerenewableintegr8311
      @sustainablerenewableintegr8311 Před měsícem +80

      It's hybridized together with the Brave New World

    • @chiquitafeldberg8259
      @chiquitafeldberg8259 Před měsícem

      A tyranny like we have never seen before is upon us all

    • @snapseven2323
      @snapseven2323 Před měsícem +13

      ​@@sustainablerenewableintegr8311 yup.

    • @WyattWade
      @WyattWade Před měsícem +20

      It’s more like brave new world.

  • @StubbsMillingCo.
    @StubbsMillingCo. Před měsícem +398

    2014, English 2 AP, our English teacher had us all a book, 1984. She says “we read it in here and we talk about it in here.” I never understood why until 2022…. She went against the system in 2014 to show us the world and to show us what was coming. She put her job on the line for our future!!! That is a TEACHER!!

    • @fredlawrence8331
      @fredlawrence8331 Před měsícem +41

      1984 is banned, Gender Queer is not.

    • @f.schmid468
      @f.schmid468 Před měsícem +45

      And that she had to put her job on a line by being a teacher in school tells you something about school

    • @mason96575
      @mason96575 Před měsícem

      @@fredlawrence8331did Fox News tell you 1984 is banned? Because it’s not.
      Gender Queer, however, IS banned - and THOUSANDS of other LGBT+ books have been banned - teachers and librarians can be IMPRISONED just for mentioning their existence, and history books- literal actual history books- have been banned from Florida K-12 schools.
      I know Fox News feeds you a narrative, and you believe it without question- but you should really expand your sources of information.

    • @goldbrick2563
      @goldbrick2563 Před měsícem +12

      Everyone reads that book in high school hun

    • @freesandy
      @freesandy Před měsícem +19

      It was required reading when I was in 7th grade. In 1984

  • @user-cg8if3eq7d
    @user-cg8if3eq7d Před 25 dny +48

    "Imagine waking up to a world where words no longer mean what they appear to." On every level I think we are living that right now.

    • @user-bs6fb2gp8d
      @user-bs6fb2gp8d Před 13 dny +4

      I agree language has been destroyed.
      On purpose too, the governors hate the governed. Fact

    • @sr2291
      @sr2291 Před 5 dny

      Anyone who has grown up with a narcissist learns that at an early age.

    • @SmokeWithMeInCT
      @SmokeWithMeInCT Před 2 dny

      Most def

    • @MaxSand-i4n
      @MaxSand-i4n Před dnem

      We once had natural male and female.....look what the Democratic polocy did to that

    • @SmokeWithMeInCT
      @SmokeWithMeInCT Před dnem

      @MaxSand-i4n yup and all for votes

  • @anamericanentrepreneur
    @anamericanentrepreneur Před měsícem +584

    The Patriot Act is another example.

    • @thomasbenner9621
      @thomasbenner9621 Před měsícem +28

      How about Single payer, Carbon Pollution or saying “investing” in place in spending.

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem +17

      @@anamericanentrepreneur The chosen and ordained one perhaps Gods most honest creation second only to Jesus / vengeance and retribution, grab em by the 🙀
      Dictator for a day/ oxymoron. Chosen, most honest/wanting desperately needing absolute immunity 🤔

    • @carlmorgan8452
      @carlmorgan8452 Před měsícem +15

      Manipulative words. A man of many words, the words loose their meaning.👈 Biblical

    • @HarryHayes-jl7it
      @HarryHayes-jl7it Před měsícem +8

      All true... mate! (Black Law dictionary and Maritime Law)

    • @user-vy7iw4lf5o
      @user-vy7iw4lf5o Před měsícem +38

      Federal Reserve. Not federal. Not a reserve. And the list goes on.

  • @mangoMango-ck3et
    @mangoMango-ck3et Před měsícem +200

    " if you can't dazzle them with brilliance,baffle them with bullshit."

    • @JrocTheReal
      @JrocTheReal Před 21 dnem +2

      Sounds like a streamer called “Destiny”

    • @richardsparks4207
      @richardsparks4207 Před 20 dny +2

      Reminds me of Chump.

    • @XanVicious
      @XanVicious Před 19 dny +3

      @@richardsparks4207don’t you people get tired of perpetuating political propaganda lies for years and years on end? Geez louise. 💀

    • @alansloan7784
      @alansloan7784 Před 15 dny +1

      That's the motto of all professional liars.

    • @michelleslack9985
      @michelleslack9985 Před 4 dny

      Yup

  • @AliciaGuitar
    @AliciaGuitar Před měsícem +263

    "I'm sorry you feel that way" instead of "im sorry i hurt you" is my pet peeve doublespeak. Says "im sorry" but shifts the blame on YOU for "choosing" to be hurt.

    • @maryl8753
      @maryl8753 Před měsícem +26

      Oooh me too and I always push back and say "the fault is not my FEELINGS , it's the REALITY of what you did". Shuts them up quick smart. I don't take that crap nonsense

    • @q.e.d.9112
      @q.e.d.9112 Před 25 dny +10

      There are “karens” out there for whom “I’m sorry you feel that way” is the least offensive, reasonable retort.

    • @deborahcollard4560
      @deborahcollard4560 Před 24 dny +9

      Well said . Im sorry you feel that way 'is a very aggressive statement meaning the opposite!

    • @dimplesocktickletit7189
      @dimplesocktickletit7189 Před 24 dny +24

      Not really doublespeak imo, I know someone incredibly sensitive and will often try to blame me for their feelings being hurt. For example they asked me what I had for breakfast the other day, then got upset because it was apparently something nicer than what they had. I’m not going to take responsibility for that. I am genuinely sorry they’re upset, but I’m not about to take responsibility for their oversensitivity either. Neither am I saying they’re choosing to be hurt, simply that I’m sorry that they are upset, that’s all that is meant.

    • @ottotjihumino7716
      @ottotjihumino7716 Před 24 dny

      ​@@maryl8753 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Mark_and_Family
    @Mark_and_Family Před měsícem +335

    i don't simply bus tables, I'm a utensil distribution specialist

    • @jakebaldwin1308
      @jakebaldwin1308 Před měsícem +20

      Disinfection engineer.... That way they don't have to offer insurance.

    • @phonkyfeel1
      @phonkyfeel1 Před měsícem +11

      Funny you say that…where I work, our supervisor always lets us know that at one time he used to be the “assistant to the executive” etc…

    • @Mark_and_Family
      @Mark_and_Family Před měsícem +10

      I think i basically agree with those sentiments, but hey here's an unrelated thought (basically)... it would only take 40 bucks a year from each U.S. taxpayer to feed 43 million mf'ers globally and save (statistically speaking) 100% of all people per year from starving to death.. but I've never heard any pubic figure take about this. sooo.. let's do that, i propose... anybody else want to start a thing up where we care about that particular item? contact me and lmk how we can make it a thing

    • @miguelrosado7649
      @miguelrosado7649 Před měsícem +6

      @@Mark_and_Family Why do you think that would be a good thing? We have problems that are the results of having too many people in places with not enough resources, we can thanks philanthropies and religious organizations for that.

    • @Vernon-gn9wb
      @Vernon-gn9wb Před měsícem +6

      Undocumented migrant.

  • @damienflinter4585
    @damienflinter4585 Před 2 měsíci +223

    Swift and Lewis Carroll fought the same war against organised idiocy.
    Organised idiocy is dangerous.
    "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
    Mark Twain.

    • @F-U-CKYTCensorship
      @F-U-CKYTCensorship Před měsícem

      ❤😂 I just had this quote in mind earlier today

    • @paulfreed6394
      @paulfreed6394 Před měsícem +14

      Twain had some good ones.

    • @damienflinter4585
      @damienflinter4585 Před měsícem

      @@paulfreed6394 Check out Ambrose Bierce, if you haven't already.

    • @nicciebunny
      @nicciebunny Před měsícem +8

      😂 that's brilliant

    • @damienflinter4585
      @damienflinter4585 Před měsícem +5

      @@nicciebunny If you think Twain was sharp...try Ambrose Bierce, from around the same period.

  • @jobidrumkenobi
    @jobidrumkenobi Před měsícem +112

    Every time I read or hear “threat to our democracy” I think of 1984.

    • @dionrau5580
      @dionrau5580 Před 19 dny +5

      Yes, Our democracy has nothing to do with you or anyone you know...

    • @saremy127
      @saremy127 Před 15 dny

      Yes we are a constitutional republic, any freedom is a threat to democracy which favors mob rule and not individual sovereignty

    • @saremy127
      @saremy127 Před 15 dny +1

      Reagan cut taxes what a bad example

    • @saremy127
      @saremy127 Před 15 dny

      Peterson? Another bad example

    • @VictorAvera
      @VictorAvera Před 12 dny

      End up as the actual enemy of any democracy, an internal enemy of the Constitutional Republic of the USA.

  • @KimberlyLetsGo
    @KimberlyLetsGo Před 2 měsíci +177

    Perfect for tonight's Presidential debate!
    I worked for a retail store and the manager tried to make me believe that working half a day was actually a day off because I did spend time not working. So if I asked for a day off, she could reject it because I was already off 2 days in a row.
    CZcams, as well as other social media outlets, are forcing us to use euphemisms more and more. Content creatures have to use works like 'unalive' or say 'rugs' instead of drugs. They can't say sexual abuse or assault or they will get demonetized.
    Undocumented immigrants. Unhoused person. I had a jail as a client and they referred to the prisoners as guests. WTF? Was I at DisneyWorld? Well, we wouldn't want to hurt the 'guests' egos'.
    If family units and our educational system doesn't teach kids Critical Thinking, we are doomed to fall for all these pitfalls discussed in this video. If you refuse to have a decent conversation with anyone that has views opposing your own, how are you going to learn to strengthen your own views? We find truths by putting them to the test. Also, if you don't have an open mind to hard conversations, you are doomed, possibly, to sit in the dark in a false reality, one of your own creation or, one that has been handed to you and kept you imprisoned with it. Looking at you YT.

    • @user-et2fj8xm5l
      @user-et2fj8xm5l Před měsícem +17

      I wholeheartedly concur with your comment. Especially the YT language game. What is un alived? These children have gone crazy..

    • @chrhadden
      @chrhadden Před měsícem +6

      i had a boss that said the day before thanksgiving " we are only working a half day today" alright " 12 hours"

    • @hateferlife
      @hateferlife Před měsícem +5

      Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine.

    • @brianpead3692
      @brianpead3692 Před měsícem

      @@KimberlyLetsGo
      What a truly accurate explanation, Kimberly. You have nailed it. In the UK we live in a democracy ... because we are told we do. The Reality is that our human rights are being eroded on a DAILY basis by stealth. As a former Head teacher in Lambeth, I REPORTED child ab*se and was sent to 10 prisons in 12 weeks as an innocent whistleblower. There IS no Rule of Law for the masses - it's an illusion used to subjugate the masses through false hope.

    • @f100sCUSTOMSCLASSICS
      @f100sCUSTOMSCLASSICS Před měsícem +2

      @@hateferlifeWhere have you been? It’s alright, we know where you’ve been!

  • @douginorlando6260
    @douginorlando6260 Před měsícem +337

    Now you know why so many politicians were lawyers

    • @user-qb8mj3nd6x
      @user-qb8mj3nd6x Před měsícem +26

      Are Lawyers!!!!

    • @chrismckell5353
      @chrismckell5353 Před měsícem +41

      A lawyer once told me that his job was exploitation of inconsistencies in the English language.
      Make of this what you will.

    • @annelbeab8124
      @annelbeab8124 Před měsícem +3

      There are different ways to be a lawyer and essential to a functioning rule of law.
      In case anyone is still interested in that,)

    • @redrustyhill2
      @redrustyhill2 Před měsícem +2

      ARE lawyers

    • @beatefuhrer9688
      @beatefuhrer9688 Před měsícem +5

      It's a business (lawyer) to save a big business and their profit,
      where the most people have no ideas how the business is really working and aren't knowing the real rules, having no insights in this main contracts, don't sing up to this social contracts, but have keeping the law you must,
      if not - it's not the problem of the Ruler. ;-)
      Unfair games you must wondering about why you're always the victim in this game!?
      Surprise.
      ✌️🤣 ✨
      Surprised? 😉👈
      „The World is a stage."
      Shakespeare
      The whole world is a Corporation.
      All „Nations“ are companies, now.
      Since when?
      Quote:
      „... Infiltration instead Invasion ...“
      3 important words from the Speach of JFK , 1963,
      he was warning you, his American people.
      Think about:
      „Trojan horse“ mechanism.
      Who was infiltrating your State, and when did it happen?

  • @larryroberts8512
    @larryroberts8512 Před měsícem +163

    Another form of doublespeak in politics is calling out "rights", which are not mentioned in the constitution, as being attacked, while all the time attacking the rights that are actually in the constitution.

    • @Will_Schrank
      @Will_Schrank Před 28 dny +2

      ❗️

    • @nmbr1son64
      @nmbr1son64 Před 25 dny +5

      The "right" that's exploited is the pursuit of happiness. That's subjective language, because it means different things to different people.

    • @mattgrover3096
      @mattgrover3096 Před 22 dny

      Very true!

    • @glynnisthomas9165
      @glynnisthomas9165 Před 20 dny +4

      ​@@nmbr1son64You missed the "pursuit" part. You are entitled to pursue happiness, you are not necessarily entitled to receive it. But one may pursue.

    • @sammyd7857
      @sammyd7857 Před 20 dny

      You are a slave. The constitution comes from man.

  • @DavidLucas-zq8gb
    @DavidLucas-zq8gb Před měsícem +92

    Don't call it counterfeiting money, call it "fractional reserve banking" instead
    Don't call it rent, call it "property tax" instead
    Don't call it debasing the currency, call it "inflation" instead
    Don't call it lying to Congress, call it "misrepresented" instead

  • @gooddog2001
    @gooddog2001 Před měsícem +100

    I was in the USARMY they'd say "We (the officers) don't ever change." "That is just the way we do things." "Nothing in life is fair." If i point out that something is illegal or someone (in authority) is breaking the law, "I'll have a talk with them." "They got permission from a judge." "They have been pardoned by a judge." "Obey your chain of command." "Just do as you are told." "You are just going to have to learn that you can't always have your way." I was demanding they uphold the law. I pointed out. I am not asking for a favor.

    • @pl8101
      @pl8101 Před měsícem

      The founders was and currently stand against a standing Army 🪖. You have be/been/being indoctrinated from state school. Say No to a standing Army 🪖. MAGA for Trump, just say No to extra spending on Defense spending. Say No to All vaccines including for your own family 🙏. 😊😊

    • @Greek5425
      @Greek5425 Před měsícem +2

      Oh,my those were the days.I wasn't questioning nor attempting to undermine your authority.Lol

    • @MASTER3RDEYE
      @MASTER3RDEYE Před měsícem +23

      Similar experience working as a correctional officer, most go along to get along because they can’t afford to lose the job because of a mortgage and children to support. Economic bondage and fear.

    • @lorenzoalbertomedina6753
      @lorenzoalbertomedina6753 Před měsícem +7

      Battery Commander looked out for me by utilizing Accidental Discharge
      instead of Negligent Discharge !

    • @maryl8753
      @maryl8753 Před měsícem

      Except the Nurenberg trials demonstrated that you can't rely on the " I was following orders" defence. Funny how they're still teaching that when they know if you are involved in illegality, no chain of command is going to save you. It's all a method of coercive control regardless of morality or illegality. So law applies to everyone unless you're a military leader or a politician but grunts can be jailed

  • @person6768
    @person6768 Před měsícem +40

    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • @project0077
    @project0077 Před 29 dny +37

    If you tell a person the same lie long enough, they'll begin to believe it

    • @Eriksvensson4231
      @Eriksvensson4231 Před 25 dny

      Once looking into things you took for granted, you will see that it might in fact be the exact opposite. Im talking about everything you have learned.

  • @Michael-Philip
    @Michael-Philip Před měsícem +80

    I like when George Carlin talks about the softening of language.

    • @JadeDragon407
      @JadeDragon407 Před měsícem

      He spoke such truth on that, though. At least up until the point of him writing that routine, the softened language at least still had a degree of coherency, whereas post-internet, it's turned into je ne sais quoi. Also, as a 🐉, plumb love your profile picture 💚💚

    • @lilianfowler7988
      @lilianfowler7988 Před 25 dny

      ​@@JadeDragon407I watch a video of this on youtube.

    • @sr2291
      @sr2291 Před 5 dny

      Actually Post Traumatic Stress Disorder describes the disorder accurately. The veterans came home from the war strong and confident toughing it all out until months or years later having a total break down. The term PTSD has been watered down to mean any stress a person goes through after any traumatic event even witnessing an event and immediately feeling the stress afterward. That was not the original meaning of the phrase.

  • @peterfmodel
    @peterfmodel Před 26 dny +37

    When the BBC described a protest in London as a mostly peaceful demonstration, which resulted in 60 police officers being hospitalised and one paralysed is a good example of doublespeak and doublethink all at the same time.

    • @ShitBucketBlues
      @ShitBucketBlues Před 12 dny

      Ironically mean social media posts or hurting someone's feelings, if they aren't white, is almost terrorism in the UK. Assault a child, with friends? Sensitivity class. Complain about being replaced by hostile foreigners? The horror!

    • @mickhills6288
      @mickhills6288 Před 8 dny

      What protest?

    • @peterfmodel
      @peterfmodel Před 8 dny

      @@mickhills6288 Any protest which the BBC approves of, just watch for the Mostly Peaceful Phrase. That is the clue.

    • @DrSpooglemon
      @DrSpooglemon Před 23 hodinami

      ​@@peterfmodel why can't you just say it?

    • @peterfmodel
      @peterfmodel Před 22 hodinami

      @@DrSpooglemon When the MSM says “Mostly peaceful protest”, it means violent protest, but I support those engaged in violence and want to spin the narrative to reduce their criminality.

  • @Spiid1000
    @Spiid1000 Před 2 měsíci +70

    I get so frustrated hearing people turn simple concepts into long winded meanderings. I didn’t know there were terms for this type of words games so this video is great man! Very informative, thanks.

    • @Nobody-df4is
      @Nobody-df4is Před měsícem +1

      Absolutely. Good video. But I'm wondering how to avoid euphemisms. For example, in politics it is deemed necessary. You need to get support for your policies. By using euphemisms it is easier to get that support from sponsors, other politicians and the public. I honestly don't see a workaround and don't think it is always bad.

    • @thomaszvolensky2171
      @thomaszvolensky2171 Před měsícem +2

      Like a Kamla Harris speech..

  • @simonbarton908
    @simonbarton908 Před 2 měsíci +378

    “Staying apart keeps us together” courtesy of the Victorian Government during lockdown, straight out of the 1984 playbook

    • @harisdiz.5817
      @harisdiz.5817 Před 2 měsíci +24

      It worked, didn't it? Double boosted and heiling the supreme leader Xin Jin Andrews. WA was no better. Everyone went along as if the best times ever.

    • @richlisola1
      @richlisola1 Před 2 měsíci

      Australia is a vile hellscape-It never stopped being a prison outpost

    • @michaelogrady232
      @michaelogrady232 Před 2 měsíci +12

      The home of INGSOC

    • @jasonsanders8091
      @jasonsanders8091 Před 2 měsíci

      NZ's PM Jacinda Ardern implored Kiwis to be "calm and kind" while she cruelly made people lose their jobs and careers because they didn't want the gene therapy shot. Her government refused to allow nz citizens return to nz during the lockdowns even if they wanted to attend the funeral of a parent or spend time with a dying father.
      Absolute "doublespeak". In another age they called it humbug.

    • @thehammer9599
      @thehammer9599 Před 2 měsíci

      @@harisdiz.5817the reality is the majority of the public prefer tyranny as long as they get to watch the tele-box and share pics of their dinner.

  • @douglasclerk2764
    @douglasclerk2764 Před měsícem +33

    Imagine waking up in a world where words no longer mean what they seem? I did that this morning.

    • @sr2291
      @sr2291 Před 5 dny

      Grow up with a narcissist. It will give you early training.

  • @user-fb7jr2fb1q
    @user-fb7jr2fb1q Před měsícem +37

    Allowing systems of power to hijack language, to legislate what can be said, to decide what speech is allowed, or punished, is a dangerous path to go down, for it allows for the control of the uttering, and so the thoughts of the people they wish to control.

  • @WarDogLRS
    @WarDogLRS Před měsícem +66

    What did Montesquieu mean by there is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice?
    The quote "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice" by Montesquieu refers to the idea that a government that abuses its power and uses the law to justify its actions is the most dangerous form of tyranny.

    • @YourLittleDeath
      @YourLittleDeath Před měsícem

      We sure got a taste of that here in Victoria, Australia during the COVID crisis.
      In any case that quote is just gold.

    • @maryl8753
      @maryl8753 Před měsícem

      Yes, because the ordinary person can't fight back when the government has has the courts, military and political leaders on its side of wrong. Even the Courts can be corrupted- the last bastion of " justice"- but where you" stack" the court like US Supreme Court you can manipulate a political ideology through the courts. Now the US can have a President who can't be charged for ANY ACTIONS EVER provided was done during the Presidency regardless if it was done with malicious intent. So now the President is above the law courtesy of the Republican stacked SupCt. So the President can even act against his own country and citizens. It's all happening in real time. EU, WEF controlling international finances all the while representing billionaires and themselves not their countries.

  • @michaeljames5936
    @michaeljames5936 Před 27 dny +15

    A few euphemisms spring to mind, 'Collateral Damage' = burned and ripped apart babies. 'Surgical Strike' = see 'Collateral Damage'. I think what the US does exceptionally well, is tying something regarded as almost sacred, to the most horrific, barbarities, such that, dissonance is so great that thought is avoided. Most obviously, 'Swearing allegiance to the flag' in school, EVERY DAY. For YEARS, and then that flag flies over soldiers, who are invading a foreign country and butchering the inhabitants. The impossibility is so huge, that we assume, it must be more complicated than we can imagine, rather than, our govt., is doing horrific things, and our soldiers are butchers. That's a tough one to hold. 'This is not, who we are.' is the most disgusting placard, someone can carry at a US anti-war demo. How many wars, invasions, coups do you need to see, before you realise that, 'This IS who you are'. Wars to 'Spread our values', to kill to liberate, to invade for democracy, while supporting and propping up murderous dictators across the globe.

    • @Parciwal_Gaming
      @Parciwal_Gaming Před 16 dny +3

      USA in at least two occasions: "You elected someone we don't like through fair and democratic means? How about we come buy for a visit. That general you have there would be a great head of state."

    • @bethpent8851
      @bethpent8851 Před 4 dny

      How many wars were were raged where we were attacked first think about the horrific ways we were attacked before we decended on them. Their were wars we should of never gotten into but Republican Presidents lied to the American People so they could have an excuse to go to war. War makes more revenue the rich get richer during war!! Read your history!! Viet Nam was one of our biggest mistakes and it was a complete disaster, Afghanistan was another huge mistake but that was for retaliation for Sept 11. World War 2 we fought 2 enemys The Japanese and Hitler but we needed to go in and we won. The bombing of 2 cities in Japan was a horrible huge unforgiving mistake which was also built on a lie I think it was whoever was before Kennedy that had us bomb Hiroshima which theirs actually a movie called that that's horrific then their was another city as well that was bombed. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. Then we went to war against Japan. The Gulf War was the War that Bush Senior got us into I really don't remember the specifics of why we went in but then we battled the Iatola Kolmeini that's another one that made no sense to go in. So not ever War was justified but the ones that were we needed to be there. We needed to go in and kill Hitler and as many Nazi Generals as we could while Hitler ravished eastern Europe he was a monster that had to be stopped no matter what. Even though he didn't invade the US he needed to be taken out and I will never be sorry for us being there. World War 1 and the Korean War and The Revolutionary War. The Civil War the North had to win the South were against abolishing Slavery!! The North had to win. A horrible war for Sure. But the South which at the time The Confederates The Democrats were auful. And the Republicans Lincoln were the good guys. And then they switched party's after the war. But that was a very necessary War. The others I mentioned before the Civil War I have to brush up on!!

    • @tylerlong7733
      @tylerlong7733 Před 3 dny

      @@bethpent8851 just to clarify Pearl Harbor happened before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Civil War was fought to keep the country united.

  • @AT-os6nb
    @AT-os6nb Před měsícem +18

    the more "sophisticated" a person talks (and acts), the more you should question their actual knowledge and true meaning of what is said. Good communication is a skill that gets your message across unambiguously in as simple a manner as possible.

  • @TheHorsebox2
    @TheHorsebox2 Před měsícem +47

    In Ireland, our politicians are completely fluent in doublespeak. They come from other countries to brush up on deceptive talk.

    • @lightupdark
      @lightupdark Před měsícem

      Ireland Tribe of Dan

    • @janelliot5643
      @janelliot5643 Před měsícem

      An Irish comedy trio, FOH, did a hilarious send-up of the adeptness of their political liars.

    • @TheHorsebox2
      @TheHorsebox2 Před měsícem +1

      @@janelliot5643 Yes, those guys are brilliant.

    • @patrickshelton5546
      @patrickshelton5546 Před měsícem

      Where do they come from?

    • @sheireland3737
      @sheireland3737 Před měsícem

      But everyone here knows it. Who doesn’t see the b/s??

  • @sergioreyes298
    @sergioreyes298 Před 26 dny +21

    The correct word is doubletalk. Orwell never mentioned "doublespeak." This is a confusion arising from his terms "newspeak" and "doublethink."

    • @nmoriss
      @nmoriss Před 20 dny +1

      True. And Double Standards are very Talmudic and Kabalistic. Well promoted by rabbis.

    • @rosabscura
      @rosabscura Před 16 dny +2

      Honestly I think that’s splitting hairs. Also “double talk” doesn’t roll off the tongue. Sounds cumbersome to say. And I think that’s why nobody says it.

    • @sergioreyes298
      @sergioreyes298 Před 16 dny +3

      You may not't know this because you're probably a young whippershnapper, but throughout the 20th century the expression "double talk" was very common, referring to a person who was deceitful or said things to purposely muddy the waters (i.e., a crooked politician, etc.). I NEVER saw "doublespeak" written or said until about 25 or 30 years ago.

    • @JeffMountainPicker
      @JeffMountainPicker Před 16 dny +2

      Yes, I'm a seasoned citizen, grew up with the term "double-talk." Simple and clear.
      "Double-speak" is very new; it sounds like an artificial contrivance.

    • @sr2291
      @sr2291 Před 5 dny

      Doublethink

  • @SureJungle23247
    @SureJungle23247 Před 2 měsíci +48

    Newspeak was just a refined form of doublespeak. The power isn't just in the language, it's in the ideas, the language as well as other media like images just expresses and spread the ideas and can distort them as well.

    • @WilcoxNotreallythere
      @WilcoxNotreallythere Před měsícem +9

      My new favorite
      "Gender affirming care"

    • @garryallison4716
      @garryallison4716 Před měsícem +5

      Yes, it’s called manipulating your perception!

    • @JadeDragon407
      @JadeDragon407 Před měsícem +1

      @@WilcoxNotreallythere Sounds better than bodily mutilation, sterilization or something along those roads. There is a whole doublethink rabbithole behind that statement and the relating ideologies, which're causing people to VOLUNTARILY do some manner of harm to themselves, whether or not they are really aware of that.

  • @SageLittleHawk
    @SageLittleHawk Před 2 měsíci +63

    "The pen is mightier than the sword", indeed.

    • @OBGynKenobi
      @OBGynKenobi Před měsícem

      Of "The penis might ier the s word."

    • @stella-gx8ne
      @stella-gx8ne Před měsícem

      Maga is in a pen. As I pig sty

    • @basstard4639
      @basstard4639 Před měsícem

      And a bullet is deadlier than the pen.

    • @lupaswolfshead9971
      @lupaswolfshead9971 Před měsícem +3

      Thatg is a misquote. The true quote is
      The pen is only as mighty as the sword used to defend it.

  • @JohnRobinson2
    @JohnRobinson2 Před měsícem +16

    When a Teacher Aide became an Educational Technician with no change in actual job duties. When an Assistant Manager became a Management Support Specialist. On and on it goes

    • @victoryamartin9773
      @victoryamartin9773 Před měsícem +2

      And housewives became domestic engineers while secretaries became administrative assistants. So complicated now.

    • @marciamartins1992
      @marciamartins1992 Před 24 dny

      Employees became associates.

    • @juanzulu1318
      @juanzulu1318 Před 7 dny

      Room cleaner becomes a "facility manager"

  • @Lilo-rw4hf
    @Lilo-rw4hf Před měsícem +29

    I have been asking myself since years now how it happened that no clear and simple messages in which either just facts, intentions or opinions are mentioned no longer exist. Instead I have to work myself through an avalanche of terms in order to figure out what might be the basic message provided that it is even possible to identify one. The common explanation is that I'm dealiing with propaganda but that's too shallow. This video offers a profound analysis. Thank you for posting this. it is way overdue.

    • @kristenmarie9248
      @kristenmarie9248 Před měsícem

      The "update" of the Smith-Mundt Act by Obama made it LEGAL to PROPAGANDIZE the American people.

  • @suzannecranny9838
    @suzannecranny9838 Před měsícem +29

    Fascinating. While I'm aware of language tricks, I hadn't joined as many dots as this explanation does. What still amazes me is that so many people, (here in France) are not remotely aware that they are being spun a line, when to me it's so obvoius

    • @annelbeab8124
      @annelbeab8124 Před měsícem +1

      Only in France?

    • @suzannecranny9838
      @suzannecranny9838 Před měsícem +4

      @@annelbeab8124 no, of course not, but it's where I live and I honestly thought people would be more aware of what's really going on, given their history.

    • @CrystalShadow
      @CrystalShadow Před měsícem +3

      Some prefer blissful ignorance to the tyranny of actual truth.

  • @kimmathews9713
    @kimmathews9713 Před 29 dny +28

    The fact we are no longer supposed to say dead or suicide or killed we are now told to say unalived. Speakers volumes to me.

    • @deagle2yadome696
      @deagle2yadome696 Před 29 dny

      no that’s just a form of self censorship that (mostly) cyoung teenagers partake in

    • @billmullins6833
      @billmullins6833 Před 26 dny +2

      I like CZcamsr Colion Noir's term "self delete". Kinda says it all.

    • @deagle2yadome696
      @deagle2yadome696 Před 26 dny +1

      @@billmullins6833 no that’s just as cringe

    • @neildees1761
      @neildees1761 Před 24 dny

      Don't participate in the word games. Words mean things.
      They're not migrants, they're ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. We're not cis, we're NORMAL. And a man can never be a woman.

    • @marciamartins1992
      @marciamartins1992 Před 24 dny +2

      Yes, when we point fingures at Russia and China, but tolerate this stuff is beyond me.

  • @anon4kag
    @anon4kag Před měsícem +78

    There are certain occupations that require the mastery of "double-speak" to excel.
    For example: politician, lawyer, sales, conman, newscaster, etc.

    • @reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql
      @reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql Před měsícem +5

      Corporate managers

    • @nolangillentine773
      @nolangillentine773 Před měsícem +5

      Law enforcement.

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem +1

      @@anon4kag Self proclaimed chosen and ordained one perhaps God's most honest creation second only to Jesus/ grab em by the 🙀

    • @SolveFixBuild
      @SolveFixBuild Před měsícem +3

      Finance and private equity jargon fits this definition. Words used to make the obvious profound.

    • @brucepoole8552
      @brucepoole8552 Před měsícem +2

      Add narcassists

  • @donaldyanson8144
    @donaldyanson8144 Před 2 měsíci +64

    Perfect timing when you started talking about euphemisms I thought of George Carlin😂

    • @sunphoenix1231
      @sunphoenix1231 Před měsícem +2

      I think everything, but that segment applies. PTSD covers more people than any prior term, I was sexually assaulted as a child and only recently diagnosed with it, and my friend who was in Iraq has PTSD can relate on some level that a lot of the ideas are the same. I know I wouldn't apply any of the prior terms to myself. I'm also using the same type of therapy that was developed with the VA as well.

    • @Sundar...
      @Sundar... Před měsícem

      ​@@sunphoenix1231 That's exactly what's at stake here. The idea that whatever the soldiers go through is the same as that which, for example, a domestic violence victim goes through. The war perpetrators could then argue that the soldiers just needed as much therapy as the abuse victims to make their lives better, thereby eliminating the very opportunity of calling their policies into question.

  • @KandaJE
    @KandaJE Před 25 dny +4

    1984 was required reading in 6th grade when I went to school. That was just before 6th, 7th, and 8th grade was reclassified as "Middle School". It was still "Grade" School and 7th and 8th were junior high. In junior high, the reading list just got longer, and the books got bigger. Almost everyone I knew had read The Lord of The Rings by the time 9th grade english came along and Shakespeare was the requirement.
    School doesn't even teach children to read anymore.

  • @karlhetzke691
    @karlhetzke691 Před měsícem +33

    Curtis Yarvin points out what i think is the most profound example of doublespeak today: the insistence that "politicizing" an issue is a bad thing but "democratizing" is a good thing. "Democracy without Politics" is almost as Orwellian as "Slavery is Freedom"

    • @davidgood840
      @davidgood840 Před měsícem +1

      Hmm ... this is very true and i hadn't recognized it before . Thanks !

    • @brucepoole8552
      @brucepoole8552 Před měsícem

      The notion that our government is bad, the source of all our problems, has been successfuly taught thru propaganda to the masses, the intended result of this propaganda is less regulations that benifit citizens as a whole and maximizes profits for corporations and the 1%.

    • @Pinkdam
      @Pinkdam Před měsícem

      And yet "populism" is bad; figure that one out lol

  • @MA-gh9op
    @MA-gh9op Před měsícem +53

    This explains the Australian Government so much

    • @chrismckell5353
      @chrismckell5353 Před měsícem +5

      I think this is relatable to politicians and beurocracy at all levels.

    • @scottmorton1202
      @scottmorton1202 Před měsícem +4

      Not just Australia.

    • @TeddyKrimsony
      @TeddyKrimsony Před 29 dny +2

      it's in most countries. the only exception I can think of is China

    • @MA-gh9op
      @MA-gh9op Před 28 dny

      @@TeddyKrimsony LOl no

    • @caninecurry5823
      @caninecurry5823 Před 2 dny

      Yeah cause the last government was so honest and worked for the people. Lmao, they both suck.

  • @bradwatson7324
    @bradwatson7324 Před měsícem +4

    I’m far more afraid of a world with governments than a world without them.

    • @apelike
      @apelike Před 29 dny

      This is ridiculous logic... your options include "good" government and not just the nightmare presented in this video, and obviously good government is much better than barbarianism... and is largely the reason we're not still raiding each other locally (for the most part).

  • @Ai-he1dp
    @Ai-he1dp Před měsícem +37

    G Orwell....if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot on a human neck forever.

  • @chrystallee5528
    @chrystallee5528 Před měsícem +23

    We live in a society where, "gobbledygook" is actually the preferred form of communication.

  • @Matrix_Trader
    @Matrix_Trader Před 25 dny +16

    I like how you showed Jordan Peterson but muted him because he actually is coherent.

    • @littlemissprickles
      @littlemissprickles Před 11 dny +4

      Peterson has had the exact opposite effect on me than what this video claimed. He opened my mind so that i was able to heal my past trauma and become a better person. Lol i totally thought this video was going a different direction until those clips.

  • @sharpangus8538
    @sharpangus8538 Před měsícem +47

    My favourite example of inflated language is “sandwich artist”.

  • @jennybardoville5455
    @jennybardoville5455 Před měsícem +24

    Your video was followed by an advert complete with every doublespeak trick you talked about

  • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
    @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Před měsícem +6

    1:19 - that man is Prof. Willam Lutz. He wrote the books "Doublespeak" and "Doublespeak 2".
    He was also my English literature professor at RU-C. I had him for two courses. Very smart man, unafraid to ask you questions the knock you off your pedestal and start critical thinking.
    He never mentioned the books in class..EVER. Stuck to the classics of Greek/Roman and later Middle Ages literature.
    I only learned after i graduated that he wrote these, and read them eagerly.
    He was an EDUCATOR, not a TEACHER (you know the difference in 2024) and will be missed.

  • @Theimpromptulife
    @Theimpromptulife Před měsícem +22

    lol shows Jordan Peterson who has stud up strong for NOT letting authority tell you how to talk or “what words to use”. He’s talked about this very thing and constantly talks about the control of language. He’s a good guy

    • @AboveAverageIntelligence
      @AboveAverageIntelligence Před měsícem +6

      That almost made me quit listening as soon as I saw that. The problem with videos like these and people who don't educate themselves is if they hear something they don't understand, they can and often will dismiss it as "gobbledygook".

    • @AliciaGuitar
      @AliciaGuitar Před měsícem +8

      Anyone who thinks JP speaks "gobbledygook" just does not have either the experience, patience, or intelligence to understand him. He is long winded, but what he says has true substance. Its hard to talk about deep subjects in a concise way.

    • @Theimpromptulife
      @Theimpromptulife Před měsícem +1

      @@AliciaGuitar I absolutely agree 👍

    • @maryl8753
      @maryl8753 Před měsícem

      Omg are you kidding? He's the biggest apologist for shutting down people's right to protest the Palestinian atrocities on the basis of " antisemitism" so he's pretty quick to throw out rights to speak and think when it suits his ideology

    • @radjamadgi2267
      @radjamadgi2267 Před 21 dnem +1

      He is the most despicable sellout on the internet while still pretending to be a man of morals. What a disgrace

  • @user-lm4yp4cq4t
    @user-lm4yp4cq4t Před měsícem +13

    There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
    'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
    In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
    Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven...

    • @emmfickle8978
      @emmfickle8978 Před 2 dny

      What if there's a bustle in your hedge row? Is it just a spring clean for the May queen?

  • @ronwilhelm1653
    @ronwilhelm1653 Před měsícem +14

    "Double Speak" - talking about George Orwell's and William Lutz's concepts but showing pictures of Republicans.

    • @JohnSmith-le5oe
      @JohnSmith-le5oe Před 21 dnem

      Or Watchtower Magazine.

    • @AltairEgo1
      @AltairEgo1 Před 19 dny

      Mostly Republicans, and neoliberal Democrats. Any form of neoliberalism could aptly be described as tyrannical in nature.

  • @manfredthewonderdog
    @manfredthewonderdog Před měsícem +6

    When I was in college, I enrolled in a self paced math class. Understanding the jargon of such was a mind boggling challenge. My daughter who was in fifth grade, shared her text book with me. I finished the course in THREE days.

    • @victoryamartin9773
      @victoryamartin9773 Před měsícem

      Lol, that's telling. My first college course was argumentation and critical thinking. It set me up to take on all the challenges of adult communication.

  • @justinflor
    @justinflor Před měsícem +24

    Gender affirming care is doublespeak. It used to be sex change operations. This was direct and you knew what it meant. Gender affirming care can now be hormones or affirming someone’s perceived gender (that doesn’t match their sex). And this even leaves the door open for women that get plastic surgery as “gender affirming” or men getting surgery to correct gynecomastia is now “gender affirming care”. These could be “sex affirming” but they muddy the water so you get confused and think all these situations are the same

  • @oakfat5178
    @oakfat5178 Před 28 dny +3

    There is a term "Doublethink" in Orwell's novel, 1984. That's holding two contradictory concepts, sets of facts, etc in one's mind without realising the contradiction exists.
    Today, the term 'cognitive dissonance' is sometimes used to describe doublethink, but it's not exactly the same thing.
    I also recall "Newspeak" from 1984 - reducing the number of words in English, so there's less possibility to articulate dissent, or to discuss political, scientific, philosophical or historical matters.
    In reality, pairs of similar words are being smooshed together to mean the same thing.
    There are no fewer words in the language, but fewer distinctions of meaning, and many more (now) redundant duplicate words meaning the same things, but with correspondingly less precision and nuance.

  • @jameswillett2403
    @jameswillett2403 Před 23 dny +3

    When I was a kid in the 80s and got spanked for "being bad", it was called discipline. Now it's abuse and everyone has PTSD.

  • @highlander3573
    @highlander3573 Před 27 dny +11

    Well, it turns out this CZcamsr uses their own form of obfuscation @ 3:43. Since Reagan is well known for his tax cuts, part of his economic policy called "Reaganomics," I had to do some fact checking. The real story is that when Reagan's advisors tried to get him to support "revenue enhancements," Reagan resolutely resisted, saying, "Revenue enhancements are by any other name a tax increase."

    • @braiden4561
      @braiden4561 Před 18 dny

      except he didnt? he simply said the reagan administration not reagan himself.

  • @vextract4662
    @vextract4662 Před měsícem +101

    "Mostly peaceful protests" had to be the most depraved doublespeak of 2020.

    • @margaretwordnerd5210
      @margaretwordnerd5210 Před měsícem +4

      "The right admires free speech" is double-speak. You ought to agree with what you illuminate, and you made your position clear.

    • @margaretwordnerd5210
      @margaretwordnerd5210 Před měsícem +2

      Alternative Facts by Randy Rainbow is an excellent song.

    • @margaretwordnerd5210
      @margaretwordnerd5210 Před měsícem +8

      Alternative Facts aren't facts.

    • @jameseverett4976
      @jameseverett4976 Před měsícem +7

      Right behind it sits the queen of political manipulation's "we have to pass it to find out what's in it." ~ N. Pelouzy.

    • @Barbara-jn2gw
      @Barbara-jn2gw Před měsícem

      💯

  • @chazmology
    @chazmology Před měsícem +13

    I lucked out and Isolated Completely aft a tour in Vietnam...still 'strange' to people when they 'thank me for my service'...my opportunity to shatter the nonsense...amen

    • @noahziegler3478
      @noahziegler3478 Před 25 dny

      I'm sorry you had no other options and had to work for psychopaths lol. Is that better. Military family in a military community here. They are not heroes. Next time thank their wives for their service in raising their kids solo 9 months a year while dealing with abuse the other 3.

  • @lisareid7043
    @lisareid7043 Před měsícem +21

    You really want to get pissed about it, legal murder for convenience, labeled as “health” care!! Think about it. Since they do this, they will do ANYTHING!

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Před měsícem +16

    We’re substantially beyond 1984!

    • @a.randomjack6661
      @a.randomjack6661 Před 28 dny +3

      For one, they got us addicted to those flat beeping things everyone carries around.
      It's a leash with multi-spies included.

    • @makylemur7019
      @makylemur7019 Před 7 dny

      @@a.randomjack6661 You got it right.

  • @TheGringoSalado
    @TheGringoSalado Před 2 měsíci +65

    I don’t think Jordan Peterson’s intent is to obscure or try to sound intelligent. If anything he speaks a lot about how he doesn’t know what something means and often uses many words as he struggles to grasp the subject. To me it appears he tries to show what the process of true learning looks like.

    • @Eddie_Sto
      @Eddie_Sto Před měsícem +10

      I think that's a great analysis of him. He takes the scenic route when getting to the point.

    • @AfroGaz71
      @AfroGaz71 Před měsícem +14

      Jordan at times engages in the very post modernism claptrap that he rails against. He certainly tends to obfuscate in so much that he'll be willing to tie up a conversation with gobbledygook, jargon, and euphemisms.
      "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." Albert Einstein.
      I do like Peterson, but that doesn't mean he's beyond criticism for some of his rambling takes.

    • @mikebrown9850
      @mikebrown9850 Před měsícem +6

      Well, Petersen is an absolute genius! When he’s introduced to a new concept, he’s an expert on it in just a couple of weeks!☝🏻💡🤡

    • @zeroneutral
      @zeroneutral Před měsícem +15

      Putting up Peterson and Trump and Regan as examples of double-speak, in July 2024, really says something about the author, IMO.

    • @zeroneutral
      @zeroneutral Před měsícem +1

      ​@@AfroGaz71 Peterson admits that post-modern philosophy has some things correct. It's the application that he seems to disagree with.
      So, if he falls into a post modern view, then that is because post-modernism is not entirely incorrect.

  • @eloisehamilton2522
    @eloisehamilton2522 Před měsícem +7

    The old "Personnel Department" is now "Human Resources Department". The old "Clerk" became "Clerical Officer" then "Administrative Services Officer".

  • @FonyBalloney
    @FonyBalloney Před 26 dny +2

    "The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children." - Kamala Harris

  • @PATRIOT4L
    @PATRIOT4L Před 28 dny +5

    To the creator of this video.
    Double speak.
    1 A woman's right to choose.
    2 Gender affirming care.
    Do you see this as double speak?
    I do.
    Now how do we convince this to the people that repeat this?

    • @caninecurry5823
      @caninecurry5823 Před 2 dny

      Is it gender affirming care when dudes take testosterone to make themselves feel like "real" men?..Asking for a weak friend, obviously.

  • @MarioLorenzo
    @MarioLorenzo Před 27 dny +5

    When I was laid off from a large corporation due to cost cutting several years ago, the corporation called it "redeployment due to restructuring."

  • @brucelawson642
    @brucelawson642 Před měsícem +6

    In the military 'friendly fire' is the accidental murder of a fellow soldier.

  • @lasseharbitz9506
    @lasseharbitz9506 Před 2 měsíci +35

    They have changed the name of The Military Industrial Complex to "The defense industrial base" lately. (Sorry for spamming, just get excited about this, very interesting stuff here.)

    • @poempadgett4664
      @poempadgett4664 Před 2 měsíci +1

      When was this- under Joetato’s reign? Two 🪽 🪽 regardless, just wondering.

    • @christiansgrignoli3351
      @christiansgrignoli3351 Před měsícem +1

      The dept of war was changed to dept of Defense I believe the same year the cia was created. 1953

    • @lasseharbitz9506
      @lasseharbitz9506 Před měsícem +1

      @@poempadgett4664 I am not sure, I heard the word when some politician was talking about the 113 B the US had given to Ukraine, the money was given to the Defense Industrial Base.

    • @lasseharbitz9506
      @lasseharbitz9506 Před měsícem +5

      @@christiansgrignoli3351 wouldn't it be great if they just used words like "Warlord" instead of General Secretary of Nato etc. He said literally "the way to peace is sending more weapons to Ukraine." That is like saying War is Peace

    • @meeksde
      @meeksde Před měsícem +2

      @@lasseharbitz9506
      Well, like Facebook, I’m probably going to steal these lines.
      Most because, like Rome, I’ve never had an original idea.😆

  • @pauleohl
    @pauleohl Před 26 dny +14

    You missed the opportunity to actually give us clips or quotes for every one of the definitions you enunciated. You gave us silent pics that implied they were examples.

  • @j.m.b5441
    @j.m.b5441 Před měsícem +3

    I'm from Cuba, and I've heard double speak my whole life. For example, for an economic crisis, they use the phrase "Special period" for the USA economic sanctions, "Blockade."
    "Non state owned enterprises" means private companies.
    For dissidents and opposition, they use "worms"
    And so on, the government down there has a whole dictionary full of double speak.
    Luckily, I live in the USA.

    • @maryl8753
      @maryl8753 Před měsícem +2

      Oh dear you just went to ground zero of propaganda and doublespeak and you don't realize it?

    • @j.m.b5441
      @j.m.b5441 Před 27 dny

      @@maryl8753 I know! 😆
      Right out of the Soviet's instructions manual!

  • @ShortbusGang
    @ShortbusGang Před měsícem +27

    "It is easier to fool the People than convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain
    Imagine a world were Truth is not a bad thing.

    • @TheDrumdog1
      @TheDrumdog1 Před měsícem +4

      Than 🙄

    • @steven5917
      @steven5917 Před 26 dny

      Please fix the quote, read how using "then" destroys the meaning of the quote while "than" (and removing the comma) captures the funny but at the same time sad, point.

  • @usedscar
    @usedscar Před měsícem +30

    Our reliance on language has made us more vulnerable than dumb animals who can sniff reality for themselves.

    • @istrumguitars
      @istrumguitars Před 15 dny

      You’ve got it wrong. It’s the *manipulation* of language that has made us vulnerable to deception.

  • @bobbybranham4830
    @bobbybranham4830 Před měsícem +8

    Psalms 91 refers to this, double speak, as a noisesome pestilence. As i studied this i realized the social media was playing a larger part in the confused noise. Everyday we are bombarded by this noisesome pestilence.

    • @TheSwordofTruth
      @TheSwordofTruth Před 26 dny +2

      1Ti 3:8 KJV - 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

    • @growapairepaire7354
      @growapairepaire7354 Před 25 dny

      Very true!

  • @cassielitton753
    @cassielitton753 Před 29 dny +5

    Double speak sounds like gaslighting

    • @boy291-z8c
      @boy291-z8c Před 27 dny

      maybe saying "gaslighting" instead of "double-speak" is double-speak?

  • @hughbarr8408
    @hughbarr8408 Před měsícem +11

    When I sit and watch this video I realise that I need to do it again and again to understand the concepts at hand. A few things come to mind at first listening, “Simulacra et Simulation” is one and time is the other. Words and meanings have context in the timeframe they are expressed. The phrases used to describe horrors of war being an example. If you think about “shell shock”, it was used to describe only small amount of people at the front end of brutal trench warfare, the rest of the population was oblivious to the horrors. Role time forward and the referencing frame changes as do the same words, except they change to describe the condition as PTSD and then they also use it to describe a wide array of conditions affecting masses of people. Time and context ! Anyway, most humans are children who can’t handle the truth.

  • @robertbowers9856
    @robertbowers9856 Před měsícem +45

    "Donald Trump has been shot" "Trump fell down when he heard a loud noise!"

  • @user-ki2ip6rf5h
    @user-ki2ip6rf5h Před měsícem +14

    Almost all titles to U.S. statutes are composed of political doublespeak. For example, the federal statute usually referred to as "Obamacare" is titled "The Affordable Care Act." Since its enactment this law has continuously and immensely increased the costs of medical care.

    • @robertaw3204
      @robertaw3204 Před měsícem

      Who gains the most with higher costs, who loses the most if we had united free healthcare? Stop making healthcare political to enrich the corporate healthcare industry.

    • @brucepoole8552
      @brucepoole8552 Před měsícem

      Not for my family, in fact quite the opposite

    • @jameseverett4976
      @jameseverett4976 Před měsícem

      As it was designed to do.

    • @jameseverett4976
      @jameseverett4976 Před měsícem +2

      @@robertaw3204 There is no such thing as free healthcare, or "free" any services or products unless you want to bring slavery back.

    • @jameseverett4976
      @jameseverett4976 Před měsícem +1

      @@brucepoole8552 that's because someone else has to pay for your "free" stuff.

  • @user-zz9gn2dc3l
    @user-zz9gn2dc3l Před měsícem +41

    Example = 'social distancing'
    Really means anti social distancing.

    • @AlluminaOnyxia
      @AlluminaOnyxia Před měsícem +1

      Go back to the drawing board. 'Social distancing' did not stop anyone who wanted to socialize from doing so. It did reduce traffic congestion in big cities and the grocery stores for a while.

    • @haggeoromero
      @haggeoromero Před 29 dny +1

      Get over it already.

    • @user-zz9gn2dc3l
      @user-zz9gn2dc3l Před 27 dny +1

      @@AlluminaOnyxia and people were made to die alone with their beloved ones looking on through a screen if they were lucky!!!
      Crimes against humanity.

    • @fayebrokaw2453
      @fayebrokaw2453 Před 24 dny

      Yeah they flipped "Social distancing " on its head . " ❤

  • @user-li4pf7bj7b
    @user-li4pf7bj7b Před 29 dny +5

    We used to think that voting for different parties would enable change. Unfortunately whoever wins, nothing changes. Politicians are puppets for conglomerates & generally too corrupt to force change

  • @donaldyanson8144
    @donaldyanson8144 Před 2 měsíci +28

    It's not called doublespeak these days it's called a word salad😂

    • @lasseharbitz9506
      @lasseharbitz9506 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Word salads full of Green energy

    • @Blissblizzard
      @Blissblizzard Před měsícem +1

      That now popular term in fact came from 1950s psychiatry.

    • @brucepoole8552
      @brucepoole8552 Před měsícem +1

      @@lasseharbitz9506why not say what you mean?

    • @lasseharbitz9506
      @lasseharbitz9506 Před měsícem

      ​@@brucepoole8552i mean that there a lot of governments and corporations who manipulate and talk about green energy when their project is really about profit. monetary gain

    • @brucepoole8552
      @brucepoole8552 Před měsícem

      @@lasseharbitz9506 corporate influence on our government, particularly on elections, is what prevents our government putting the interests of the middle class foremost, the oil industry is probobly the most powerful, the notion that government is bad and the source of all our problems has been successfuly indoctrinated into the masses, if we can get big money out of our elections then the profit of corporations will not be above the health of our citizens, whether oil or so called green energy dosnt matter, what matters is getting our government back to representing us not big money.

  • @axel8406
    @axel8406 Před 2 měsíci +69

    Abortion is health care is my favorite new doubkespeak. A close 2nd is populism is a threat to democracy.

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem +2

      At this time, the Nazi Party was one of many small extremist groups in Munich, but Hitler's vitriolic beer hall speeches began attracting regular audiences. He became adept at using populist themes, including the use of scapegoats, who were blamed for his listeners' economic hardships.

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem +1

      The self proclaimed "chosen and ordained one perhaps Gods most honest creation second only to Jesus," grab em by the🙀 and I desperately need absolute immunity!🤔

    • @axel8406
      @axel8406 Před měsícem +9

      @M.J.212 what are you talking about. Are you defending the doublespeak of today with your assertion of Hitler rise to power and poorly conflating it with a political opponent you don't like?

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem

      @@axel8406 I provided you a prime example of populism being a threat to democracy that you seemed to mock. Then I provided you a prime example of double speak. Don't fault me because Trump has chosen to echo and channel Hitters vitriol by scapegoating and demonizing groups as an "infestation, vermin and poisoning the blood of the country.

    • @M.J.212
      @M.J.212 Před měsícem

      @@axel8406 I provided you a prime example of populism going against democracy. You can't turn Trump's choice to praise, quote and channel Hitler against me for logically pointing out the harsh reality. IE... scapegoating, demonizing groups as an "infestation, vermin and poisoning the blood of the country. Their words not mine.

  • @Bob-cx4ze
    @Bob-cx4ze Před měsícem +5

    I can't help but see the similarly between the assertion that control of language is control of thought and Jordan Peterson's opposition to Bill C16. Freedom of thought and freedom of speech seem inextricably intertwined.

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance Před měsícem +13

    DoubleSpeak defies definition to the unwary.
    In the service of the State, it is how corporate media shapes the narrative and most people are oblivious.

  • @evekinglehman84
    @evekinglehman84 Před měsícem +13

    "Mistakes were made", first heard in 1987 from Reagan on the Iran-Contra affair. "Ethnic Cleansing", basically genocide, came from the 1990's former Yugoslavia "conflict", and a translation of the Serbo-Croatian language. From the Japanese Samurai, "Invite them Onward", for murder or war killing.

    • @gordonsulc8319
      @gordonsulc8319 Před měsícem +1

      "Mistakes were made" is a past-passive exonerative. Feel free to use that.

  • @patrickbarrett5650
    @patrickbarrett5650 Před 29 dny +4

    Watch a British TV series called ‘Yes Minister.’ The Minister is constantly bamboozled by his adviser . It’s an education.

  • @brianpead3692
    @brianpead3692 Před měsícem +17

    Mr Orwell was a *genius*.

  • @zovalentine7305
    @zovalentine7305 Před měsícem +16

    POLITICKS: the insane notion that one can pick up a turd by the clean end 💩

    • @Theradicalreb
      @Theradicalreb Před měsícem +2

      If that wasn’t so nasty a thought, I’d laugh my few brains out.

    • @janetbaker7848
      @janetbaker7848 Před měsícem +1

      Brilliant analogy

  • @JoeDeCarlo-km9nf
    @JoeDeCarlo-km9nf Před 26 dny +2

    When you ask politicians a valid question, and then they claim they are insulted by the question… Because they don’t have an argument to back up their claim

  • @TheGringoSalado
    @TheGringoSalado Před 2 měsíci +92

    Quantitative Easing
    Essentially anything out of the Fed.

    • @cartdot
      @cartdot Před 2 měsíci +17

      Even the name is misleading. Federal Reserve. It’s not technically a government agency nor democratic so “federal” is not really the right word. Likewise I have many questions about the “reserve”. What is our reserve?

    • @scottsound4711
      @scottsound4711 Před 2 měsíci +10

      @@cartdot You think thats bad , I got TheBank of England 😆🤣😆

    • @cartdot
      @cartdot Před 2 měsíci

      @@scottsound4711 it’s essentially the same. The fed was modeled off of the Bank of England

    • @SageLittleHawk
      @SageLittleHawk Před 2 měsíci +4

      That's a good one. 👍

    • @SageLittleHawk
      @SageLittleHawk Před 2 měsíci +7

      ​@@scottsound4711 or East India Trading Company. 😂

  • @sdl1998
    @sdl1998 Před měsícem +22

    i hope you weren’t trying to imply that the precision with which peterson speaks is actually gobbledygook.

    • @janamontgomery4599
      @janamontgomery4599 Před měsícem +3

      I was wondering if anyone eles caught that.

    • @joesee8079
      @joesee8079 Před měsícem +3

      I saw that too

    • @gzoechi
      @gzoechi Před měsícem +4

      Glad to see such comments. I always found that Dr. Peterson strives for clear and precise language. Usually people try hard to twist his words. When he tries to be even more precise to prevent misinterpretation, they accuse him of using overly complicated language to say nothing at all. It's usually obvious they just don't like what he's saying.
      There is a lot that would be valid to criticize him for, but not his use of language.

    • @rosabscura
      @rosabscura Před 16 dny

      @@gzoechidr Peterson doesn’t believe in climate change and believes women who choose not to have babies are weird and selfish. His opinion means nothing to anyone who is educated on climate change and women’s issues.

  • @OrtusMallum2075
    @OrtusMallum2075 Před měsícem +8

    "When we talk about the children of the community, they are the children of the community."
    -Kamala Harris
    What does this fall under?

  • @JediHobbit89
    @JediHobbit89 Před 2 měsíci +16

    The choices of footage really exposes this guy's political biases.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Před 2 měsíci +7

      Ironic considering doublespeak isn't a partisan thing. Both sides do it (to varying degrees)

    • @gregsmith7949
      @gregsmith7949 Před 2 měsíci

      True...where is all the footage of left wingers and Democrats? Both sides are just as bad. Kinda like a...uniparty?

    • @JediHobbit89
      @JediHobbit89 Před 2 měsíci

      @@williamdrum9899 true. You could find just as many examples of the left doing it as the right.

    • @relly793
      @relly793 Před měsícem +2

      The fact that this was your take away says more about you than anything else

    • @IIISWILIII
      @IIISWILIII Před měsícem +2

      Yup. 💯

  • @kevinbeck8836
    @kevinbeck8836 Před 2 měsíci +45

    “But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.

    Confusion of language of good and evil; this sign I give unto you as the sign of the state.”

  • @vicnedel02
    @vicnedel02 Před 20 dny +4

    Every time I hear the words "Stunning and Brave" in that exact combination, I mentally prepare myself to see someone who actually looks "insane and ugly".

  • @karmadog4565
    @karmadog4565 Před 26 dny +5

    You show several people who I personally think are not full of double speak, esp Jordon Peterson. He speaks absolute truth, which is why politicians do not like him.