President Trump on Monday floated returning the Department of Defense to its prior name, the Department of War, calling its current moniker "too defensive."
It’s kind of interesting that for all that libs reference 1984 when talking about Trump, calling it the “Department of Defense” was Orwellian in a literal sense, and this change is very anti-Orwellian. I’ve long grown past Orwell’s work, but both his essays and 1984 extemporize on the way governments use language to obscure the true intentions of their actions and mangle the ability of the populace to understand or describe what they’re seeing. As such, all the governmental departments in 1984 do the opposite of what they say they are: the Ministry of Truth systematically lies to people, the Ministry of Peace makes war, etc.
Kinda crazy how a work whose core message is about how language can be weapbonised to make certain ideas impossible to express has had its symbols weaponised by the ruling hegemony to stamp out competing ideas.
The way the cultural hegemony assimilates counter-cultural works proves more than anything that the superstructure is built upon the base. So long as the capitalists control the means of communication, real rebellion against their ideas can only be temporary.
It’s kind of interesting that for all that libs reference 1984 when talking about Trump, calling it the “Department of Defense” was Orwellian in a literal sense, and this change is very anti-Orwellian. I’ve long grown past Orwell’s work, but both his essays and 1984 extemporize on the way governments use language to obscure the true intentions of their actions and mangle the ability of the populace to understand or describe what they’re seeing. As such, all the governmental departments in 1984 do the opposite of what they say they are: the Ministry of Truth systematically lies to people, the Ministry of Peace makes war, etc.
Trump: War is war. Freedom is freedom. Ignorance is ignorance.
Libs who don’t even read their own canon of fictional works: This is just like 1984.
When is he going to replace USAID with USAIL
Kinda crazy how a work whose core message is about how language can be weapbonised to make certain ideas impossible to express has had its symbols weaponised by the ruling hegemony to stamp out competing ideas.
The way the cultural hegemony assimilates counter-cultural works proves more than anything that the superstructure is built upon the base. So long as the capitalists control the means of communication, real rebellion against their ideas can only be temporary.