{"id":93370,"date":"2025-04-29T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93370"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:12:32","slug":"1984-and-the-politicizing-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/1984-and-the-politicizing-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>1984<\/em> and the Politicizing of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLep5qGWONk?si=VwOLRbjNmiZlAkTd\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 16 Aug 2024<\/p>\n<p>A dive into <em>1984<\/em> in relation to modern politics can\u2019t be done without pissin&#8217; in everyone&#8217;s Froot-Loops, so grab a tall glass of Victory Gin and let&#8217;s talk about how The Party functions, how doublethink makes us crazy, and how it&#8217;s not just those nutters on the other side that do it. <\/p>\n<p>I take a few jabs at current sacred cows of the Left and Right here. Hopefully the comments won&#8217;t look like Hate Week. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:46 Thoughtcrime and Doublethink<br \/>\n12:27 War is Peace<br \/>\n17:46 Oligarchal Collectivism<br \/>\n22:12 MiniTrue<\/p>\n<p><em>Post-release edit<\/em>: It&#8217;s been pointed out that I grossly oversimplified the military analysis later in the video, which is true. Man-portable air defense systems and maneuver warfare are a lot more complicated than this video implies. As for that one particular doublethink example mentioned so very briefly, some of the counterpoints have been &#8230; impressive contortions of language in their own right. But not interesting enough to discuss the matter further. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 16 Aug 2024 A dive into 1984 in relation to modern politics can\u2019t be done without pissin&#8217; in everyone&#8217;s Froot-Loops, so grab a tall glass of Victory Gin and let&#8217;s talk about how The Party functions, how doublethink makes us crazy, and how it&#8217;s not just those nutters on the other side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,10,28,53],"tags":[780,457,1593,354,400,122,34],"class_list":["post-93370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-communism","tag-fascism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-georgeorwell","tag-language","tag-movies","tag-thought-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ohY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93371,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93370\/revisions\/93371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}