Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050

Financial Post

Peter Foster: In fact, there is no climate “crisis” or “emergency.” However, as Orwell noted, the language of fear and panic is one of the main instruments of political control. PHOTO BY MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES FILES

The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party . Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words. Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Meanwhile, there is another significant date in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The book’s appendix on «The Principles of Newspeak» stressed that the corruption of language was a multi-generational project whose fruition would not come until well into the present century.

Weasel Words

The main existential threat is claimed to be catastrophic man-made climate change. «Climate Governance» has thus emerged as the «fourth pillar» of the UN’s mandate, joining Peace and Security, Development, and Human Rights. It has held 25 enormous «Conferences of the Parties,» or COPs, which have promoted a morass of uncoordinated national policies that have had zero impact on the climate.

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