No, it doesn't work that way.
Canada and UK are trying the perpetual satanic dream of tyrants, but they won't succeed. They'll only induce quiet rebellion.

Both former "countries" are imprisoning people for accurate scientific observations of facts. This Prager podcast gives the standard Orwellian line about such tyranny:

"If you want to control people's thoughts, control their words. That's totalitarian thinking."

In the first place, the correlation is completely absent.

The wildest Sorosians, the oldest and strongest warriors for "variable gender", are in countries like Sweden and Denmark where gender is marked in every noun.

The firmest supporters of Natural Law and biological reality are in countries that have very little indication of gender in their languages.

Contrary 1: Russians are firmly on the Natural Law side. Lenin tried to clip them but failed. Their language represents gender in every noun AND in the past tense of verbs.

Contrary 2: English, unlike other Indo-European languages, has no grammatical gender. We mark semantic gender in pronouns but nowhere else. The non-binarians ALREADY control most of our institutions WITHOUT altering the language. (They wouldn't be able to punish people for wrong words if they didn't ALREADY control the schools and courts and media.)

So the correlation isn't negative or positive, it's just NOT THERE. Language doesn't limit thinking. Control of thoughts comes BEFORE control of language.

Orwell missed the boat with Newspeak, but got closer to the target with other mechanisms.

The real key to thought control is not in language. The key is to own the SENSES.

Effective totalitarians provide a substitute universe in which all characters, objects, events and behavior run according to the Satanic Law of the ruler. This substitute universe can't occupy all the senses all the time, so it guarantees that you have no confidence in your unmediated observations outside the substitute universe.

Orwell got halfway to the substitute universe with the Telescreen and Room 101, but Orwell didn't have the experience of post-1970 TV with its split-second split-screen camera cuts and multi-layered backbeat stripping stability and steadiness from our attention. He didn't predict the iPhone.

Labels: Carver, Constants and Variables

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