Orwell is a fuck but concepts like the "two minutes hate," "newspeak," the "memory hole," and the "telescreen," as well as gags like "we've always been at war with eastasia" are essentially canonized in the anglo world and there's no point in reaching for more obscure analogies when those suffice.
One thing that the republicans do very well is getting on the same page wrt language. They test the shit out of phrases and words. Partial birth abortion, democrat party, Obamacare, etc. makes their way into your mind to produce a reaction that you're not fully conscious of. It's why the people constantly repeating "read theory" get nowhere. Those ideas don't stick in your head easily, or at least that has been my experience.
I had a poli sci prof in college explain how a republican student went to a conference run by conservatives on how to use and manipulate language to push their agenda.
I know Orwell is hated by a lot of the left but you all should read “politics and the English language”.
Orwell is a fuck but concepts like the "two minutes hate," "newspeak," the "memory hole," and the "telescreen," as well as gags like "we've always been at war with eastasia" are essentially canonized in the anglo world and there's no point in reaching for more obscure analogies when those suffice.
One thing that the republicans do very well is getting on the same page wrt language. They test the shit out of phrases and words. Partial birth abortion, democrat party, Obamacare, etc. makes their way into your mind to produce a reaction that you're not fully conscious of. It's why the people constantly repeating "read theory" get nowhere. Those ideas don't stick in your head easily, or at least that has been my experience.
I had a poli sci prof in college explain how a republican student went to a conference run by conservatives on how to use and manipulate language to push their agenda.
Yeah my favorite is changing global warming to climate change because climate change sounds less threatening.