LEXICON OF DOUBLESPEAK

Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, popularized doublethink, doublespeak, newspeak ideas in his book Nineteen Eighty-four. More recently, William Lutz has re-introduced the ideas in Doublespeak and New Doublespeak. A casual observation of history and literature will indicate to any person of modest linguistic competence that the ideas of political and religious manipulation have relied heavily on doublethink and doublespeak for at least as long as any historical records have been kept. The intention here is to call attention to mass acceptance of currently popular doublespeak in news media, academia, and politics. This is what is meant here by doublethink and doublespeak:

DOUBLETHINK

The ability to hold at least two contradictory ideas in the mind without experiencing cognitive dissonance.

DOUBLESPEAK

The ability to speak or write two or more contradictory ideas without the speaker or writer being consciously aware of the contradiction. Doublespeak may be, and problably is, consciously used to deceive.

SENATORIAL DOUBLESPEAK

The following excerpt is from an interview by Cokie Roberts with Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat, West Virginia, on ABC-TV This Week with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson, February 7, 1999, relative to the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton:

Senator Robert Byrd: Well, lets..., let’s look at it this way. He has..., his actions hurt..., me, you, all the institutions of government. Hurt the President, Presidency, the executive branch, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the judiciary to some extent. Nobody has gotten off scott-free. The question is: Does this rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors? I say yes. No doubt about it in my mind, but..., the issue is: Should the President be removed? Should this President be removed? Uh..., that’s the issue. And the Constitution requires that if he is convicted, he is automatically removed. Immediately. There’s no second chance. So it comes down to the question, comes down to the issue: To remove, or not to remove? That is the question.

RB: All institutions have been injured. A bad..., precedent has been set. A nightmare. We’ve all experienced a nightmare, here. But in the interest of the future, and he has been hurt. He will not escape the judgment of history. He won’t be getting off scott-free. People a hundred years from today will talk about this. I am not going to be at all light in my excoriation of William Jefferson Clinton. What he did was deplorable. Inexcusable. A bad example. It undermined the system of justice when he gave false testimony under oath. He lied under oath. But, I can close that chapter. I can work with the President.

On February 12, 1999, Senator Robert Byrd voted to acquit on both articles of impeachment.

Further doublespeak from the same interview:

Cokie Roberts: And what in the end do you think it means for the Senate?

RB: (sigh)Oh..., that’s a tough question. I think that history when it looks back from the viewpoint of twenty years, ten years, or thirty, or fifty, or a hundred years will say that the Senate, under all these circumstances, did pretty well. And in the fi..., the final judgment..., the final judgment will be, I believe, as history looks back on it, that the Senate in a very, very difficult situation, the most..., the most heart wrenching of any vote that any Senator will ever be called on to make is the vote to convict or to acquit. It will be very difficult to stand and say not guilty, very difficult. Who’s kidding whom here? I have to live with myself. I have to live with my conscience. And I have to live with the Constitution. And that Constitution is just like the Bible, you can’t write it over.

The Constitution has been amended 26 times, and the Bible has been written over many times.

Caveat: Some of the following definitions offered here may not seem like doublespeak to some readers.

Noted examples of doublethink and doublespeak may be e-mailed to monques@i-link-2.net.

Belief: Denial of reality.

Competition: Creation of losers.

Congressional investigation: Cover-up by partisan polarization.

Constitution, U. S: A quaint, outdated document defining U. S. Government. It is subject to alteration by legislation, regulation, police mis-conduct and judicial
(in)discretion.

Constitutional right: Privilege granted by Constitution as interpreted by judicial
(in)discretion and journalistic misinformation.

Creditor: One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Crime: Any act or thought deemed by Statists to conflict with State interest. (See justice, State, and Statist.)

Debtor: One captured by the desolating incursion of a Creditor.

Debt: Money.

Defense: Imperialistic aggression.

Democracy: American imperialism. Also, any form of government, preferably dictatorship established by controlled elections, that operates in the interest of international finance. Parliamentary forms of government composed of elected or appointed agents of finance are also included. Agents are commonly controlled by election campaign finance. A primary characteristic of democracies is that they consist of multitudinous, conflicting factions of powerless people who are impotent to challenge financial rulers.

Democrat Party: Left wing of political power monopoly in the U. S. A.

Economics: Financial mythology. Arguably the best evidence of academic corruption.

Economist: Pathological doublethinker and doublespeaker.

Federal Reserve: Private, non-federal banking monopoly of the U. S. A.

Freedom: Voluntary compliance. Also, lack of restraint of international finance to exploit all resources including people by any means including mass murder.

Free Trade: Coerced and restrained trade operated exclusively through debt medium of exchange in the interest of international finance. (See freedom and trade.)

Gold standard: Financial trick that fools naive people into believing that gold actually backs money in such a way as to make the two synonomous and convertible.

History: Blend of both myth and selected facts alterable for political purposes. History is arguably second best to economics as evidence of academic corruption.

Journalist: Pathological doublethinker and doublespeaker. Media prostitute of misinformation and disinformation. (See news.)

Justice: Court verification of Statist beliefs expressed as law. Also, criminal or civil prosecution of any act or idea deemed by Statists to conflict with State interest.

Justice system: Injustice system. Enforcement of Statist belief by police power.

Law: Statutes, written by Statist thieves and murderers, defining acts and ideas as crimes. (See politician.)

Military: Any group of organized mercenaries who carry out mass murder and plunder on a large scale in the interest of international finance.

Money: Debt.

National interest: The interest of international finance which protects its self-interest by control of governments through political parties and Presidential appointments; leveraged ownership of press, entertainment, and industry; and military through government. (See democracy and freedom.)

News: Misinformation industry operated for the first purpose of commercial advertisement. Advertisement requires audience for revenue purposes which leads to sensationalism, prurience, and avoidance of truth. It often entertains as it misinforms. Secondary purposes include political and financial propaganda that support the political establishment that protects media and industrial owners who are financiers. The secondary purposes require complete subversion of journalistic ideology for the purpose of assisting official cover-up, making of false history, and distortion of truth by selectivity.

Politician: Pathological doublethinker and doublespeaker. Also, any combination of liar, thief, or murderer who uses doublethink and doublespeak to rationalize such activity as being in the public interest.

Reality: Reified mental contructs of journalists, politicians, and academics. (See reify, news, history, and economics.)

Reify: To believe that a belief is reality. Pathological ability of the human mind to substitute mentally created illusions for reality.

Republican Party: Right wing of political power monopoly in the U. S. A.

Revenue enhancement: Tax. (See tax.)

Right: When not a direction, a term used to express a mental figment, sometimes modified by other figments such as natural, legal, Constitutional, and civil, that implies a privilege of acting or believing in prescribed ways.

Sports: Industrial exploitation of competitive athletics.

State: A mythical entity that usually includes a geographical area bounded by mythical, arbitrary boundaries usually constructed and always protected by military force. States are normally believed to be larger than their constituent parts and transcendant over all else, including human life, within its territory.

Statist: One who believes The State is a real, transcendant thing. (See State.)

Sustainable development: Popular oxymoron.

Tax: Armed robbery by Statists.