[sudo-discuss] revolutionaries and the creation of new language

[Anthony Di Franco]

More of the same fun in Orwell's Politics and the English Language.
http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

> I would've been tortured by 4th grade, and not just by my peers???  I am
> all for rejecting institutionally inserted newspeak.  I really like
> buckminster fuller's way of doing it where he replaces a common name with a
> truly descriptive name.  This causes the idea to sink in deeper but takes
> fucking forever - grasping for my operating manual here the first one i
> find is:
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> This "sovereign" - meaning top-weapons enforced - "national" claim upon
> humans born in various lands leads to ever more severely specialized
> servitude and highly personalized identity classification
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> not the best example...but here is a true gem: renewable energy = "vast
> amounts of income wealth as Sun radiation and Moon gravity to implement our
> forward success"
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> taking control of the newspeak is great but for more effective
> communication prior to viral-level word distribution, people have to
> understand the nature of the problem at hand in common terms repurposed to
> describe more accurately, maybe even be left to their own devices to
> collectively form their own newspeak to describe things that become
> commonly enough understood to require their own word?  takes more work to
> lay the cultural substrate in my opinion, but seeing the existing coverage
> authoritarian substrate upon the lands i am 100% down with self-defensive
> newspeak.  shall we brainstorm?
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> suggested pattern: imposed newspeak -> actual description of thing ->
> alternate, more accurate newspeak
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> clean coal = coal whose combustion byproducts are buried rather than
> vented to the atmosphere =  drinkingwell coal (just getting warmed up, ok?)
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> inflation = artificial human wealth reduction through repeated issuance of
> wealth credits to nonhuman entities at pre-issuance value, which
> equilibrate to reduced post-issuance value by the time they reach human
> hands = bankskimming
>
> war on terror = use of overwhelmingly disproportionate violence to respond
> to and/or preempt violence against the population funding it through direct
> action and fear-based behavior influence= state-sponsored terrorism
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> lawn = high mowing/land/herbicide cost unproductive area maintained for
> solely aesthetic purposes = nongarden area
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> taxes = violence-and/or-mobility restriction enforceable requirement to
> turn over a fraction of work benefit to multiple remote yet geographically
> encompassing organizations - each with their own overhead costs including
> physical structures, paper consumption, and advanced violence delivery
> personnel and equipment - for uses determined by arguments between
> strangers = well...taxes pretty much sums it up
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> just my 0.0002 individual production credits
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> May 9, 2013 12:52:40 AM, g2g-public01 at att.net wrote:
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>     Romy, Yos-
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>     Good example.  Also an example of what happens when power is wielded
>     without checks & balances, by people who are so enamored of a
>     theory that it obscures the real world.
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>     The Khmer Rough also routinely slaughtered or interned &
>     tortured anyone found wearing glasses, because they believed that
>     glasses were a sign of an attempt to assert status by the
>     intellectual and technical classes.  But the fact is that by middle
>     age, almost all men and probably at least a majority of women
>     require the use of glasses to read and perform other short-distance
>     visual tasks.  That inconvenient fact didn't get in the way of the
>     Khmer Rouge's theory.
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>     Everyone reading this email is a member of the "intellectual and
>     technical class," even if a large plurality of us are living on
>     working class income or less.  And the vast majority of us are going
>     to live long enough to need glasses.  Fortunately none of us has the
>     power to compel any of us to use words a certain way, even though we
>     can & do argue (as peers) about that.
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>     -G.
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>     On 13-05-08-Wed 10:21 PM, Romy Ilano
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>       There is a yin and a yang to everything.
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>         Here are a few examples of the "dark side" of
>           reshaping language... ;
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>           I've read a lot of history about the Chinese Cultural
>             Revolution and the Cambodian Khmer Rouge... these groups
>             were very interested in reforming a corrupt society, finding
>             new ways of doing things. They are not shining examples but
>             I can say that their intentions started out pure.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_rule_of_Cambodia#Establishing_the_Constitution_of_Democratic_Kampuchea
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>             On
>               the surface, society in Democratic Kampuchea was
> strictly ;egalitarian.
>               The ;Khmer
>                 language, like many in Southeast Asia, has a complex
>               system of usages to define speakers' rank and social
>               status. These usages were abandoned. People were
>               encouraged to call each other "friend", or "comrade" (in
>               Khmer, មិត្ដ mitt), and to avoid traditional signs of
>               deference such as bowing or folding the hands in
>               salutation.
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>             Language
>               was transformed in other ways. The Khmer Rouge invented
>               new terms. People were told they must "forge" (lot dam)
>               a new revolutionary character, that they were the
>               "instruments" (opokar) of the Angkar, and that
>               nostalgia for pre-revolutionary times (chheu satek arom,
>               or "memory sickness") could result in their receiving
>               Angkar's "invitation" to be deindustrialised and to live
>               in a concentration camp.
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