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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 04:46:54 PST 2021


https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/01/27/newspeak-21-century-how-become-model-citizen-new-era-domestic-warfare/
https://justforkidslaw.org/what-we-do/fighting-change/strategic-litigation/children-spies
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-urged-to-take-fresh-look-at-domestic-terrorism-11605279834
https://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html
https://www.aclu.org/other/top-ten-abuses-power-911
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/

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Newspeak In The 21st Century: How To Become A Model Citizen In The New
Era Of Domestic Warfare

Authored by Cynthia Chung via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

War will continue under the Old Cold War doctrine. War will always be
present, and yet will never be seen by the majority of our citizens...

With President Biden’s inauguration many feel that they can finally
breathe a deep sigh of relief. At last sanity has been restored and we
can all go back to our predictable lives knowing that the future can
only get better during these next four years.

Well…not quite.

There still remains the problem that everybody may not be on board
with the progressive changes that Biden’s Administration plans to push
through. This, of course, is wholly unacceptable.

Disagreement has become an extremely sensitive issue lately; it was
once thought that debate was an essential component to a strong and
healthy democracy, however, we are now told that it is extremely
dangerous, in fact, it may soon be categorised as a form of domestic
terrorism.

As early as mid-Nov 2020, Biden was already discussing the need to
pass further laws against domestic terrorism. This is interesting
since under the 2001 Patriot Act (which was meant to be a temporary
enforcement in reaction to 9/11, however, is still in place 19 years
later), domestic terrorism is already defined as;

    “activities that (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are
a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. or of any state; (B)
appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian
population; (ii) to influence the policy of government by intimidation
or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass
destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily
within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.”

So, the question begs, what else needs to be added to the Patriot Act,
which was recognised at the time of its enforcement as something that
should only be temporary since it was understood that it infringed
upon civil liberties? Come to think of it, why is the Patriot Act
still in place, which allows for the indefinite continuation of human
rights violations such as warrantless wiretapping; illegal torture,
kidnapping, and detention; mass surveillance; government secrecy; Real
ID; no-fly list; political spying; abuse of material witness statutes;
and attacks on academic freedom?

As Glenn Greenwald wrote in his formidable paper The New Domestic War
on Terror is Coming, “what needs to be criminalized that is not
already a crime?”, keeping in mind that as of June 2020, the United
States has the highest prisoner rate in the world, followed by El
Salvador, Turkmenistan, Thailand and Palau.

Well, the answer is apparently simple and as always for our own good.
We have come to a point in time where the enemy is not some
radicalized ideology, it is not some foreign despot, it is not even
the threat of war (whether it be economic, cyber or nuclear), but
rather it is ourselves. We, the people, are the new enemies of the
State.

You may protest “Not I! I am a model citizen! I pay my taxes on time,
I am never late or call in sick for work, I make sure to be up-to-date
with the newest ‘woke’ revelations and I don’t engage with anything
outside of the mainstream matrix during my free-time.” People such as
yourself think, that when the Biden Administration is calling for
tougher laws against domestic terrorism, that it is obviously meant
for the ‘other guy,’ those uneducated bigots who are screaming at the
top of their lungs “Treason!” and inciting what we are told to be
forms of ‘insurrection,’ all in the name of the archaic ideas of
‘patriotism’ and the ‘U.S. Constitution.’

You, unlike so many others, have no problem recognising that the U.S.
Constitution is actually part of the problem, that by the standards
used today, the U.S. Constitution is itself responsible for ‘inciting
violence’ and thus guilty of domestic terrorism, and thus needs to be
revoked.

But you see… that’s just not good enough.

Though you are well on your way to becoming a model citizen in the
21st century, you still have a little ways to go. It is for this
reason that a guide to 21st century Newspeak has been recently
released to make sure that well-intentioned citizens like yourself are
fully informed of what is required of you in terms of appropriate
behaviour, as well as appropriate thoughts, and though this will take
a little more time, appropriate instincts.
21st Century Newspeak

The first alteration that will need to take place is freedom of
thought. It has been shown through peer-review studies that individual
thoughts are susceptible to forming erroneous beliefs and can lead to
dangerous behaviours such as refusal to integrate into a community
standard.

Once an individual refuses to integrate into its designated community,
it is only a matter of time before this individual shows opposition
and even antagonism towards said community. Thus failure to integrate
is one of the first signs that an individual is on the path to
becoming a domestic terrorist.

Because the individual mind is flawed, it can no longer be trusted to
be the standard of its own judgement of what is right and wrong. It is
for this reason that we are introducing groupthink. This concept is
not new, however, the difference is from now on the individual’s
environment will only be allowed to reciprocate the values of
groupthink, and all other thoughts outside of groupthink are to be
banned and punishable under the new laws.

Even if thoughts outside of groupthink appear as harmless to the
collective, they are not, for any thought that is not groupthink
threatens to lead to a different outcome than that intended by
groupthink and thus is a threat to the security of the collective.

In order to ensure commitment to groupthink, it will be mandatory that
every individual engage in at least 2 minutes of Hate every hour
throughout the day, every day. This can be achieved either by watching
2 minutes of Hate news, or by engaging in a public 2 minutes of Hate
with a colleague, a friend or family member via social media.

It is imperative that an individual watch the 15 minute morning and
evening “What to Hate” news provided by the Ministry of Truth (or
Minitrue), in order to be the most up-to-date with what are the
ongoing and new subjects of Hate, and what were previous subjects of
Hate which are no longer deemed to be subjects of Hate.

It is most important that an individual never refer to a former
subject of Hate as such. Any present subject of Hate must be seen as
having always been a subject of Hate and any former subject of Hate
must be seen as having never been a subject of Hate.

This may appear as an impossible task, but we assure you it is
entirely possible with the use of doublethink, which many of you have
already been practising. Doublethink requires that one be both
conscious and unconscious of the fact that they are telling deliberate
lies while genuinely believing them; to deny the existence of
objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality
which one denies. This makes up a part of our new Party slogan:
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

Those who excel the most in doublethink will receive the highest
stations within our newly organised community, as safe-guards against
the renegade, the domestic terrorist.

Another alteration that will need to occur is how we think and refer
to the past and the future. With the newly enforced groupthink, the
present is what groupthink dictates it to be, which is subject to
change, however, must be regarded as having always been.

The past is what the present dictates it to be, if it were not, it
could challenge the basis for the present. Thus to preserve the
present, the past must serve the present, only justifying why we Hate
what we presently Hate and why we Love what we presently Love and can
do nothing to contradict these Party lines. There will be permitted no
records of an alternative past, there will be no way to prove that the
past was ever different from what the present dictates it to be, the
only threat to this narrative is the record of the individual mind,
and once this ceases to be there will only be the Minitrue record as
the recorder of past Truth.

In effect, the model citizen will perceive the past as dead and the
future as unimaginable. The future is unimaginable because it is
impossible to think of an alternative to the present, in fact, the
mere act of thinking of an alternative to the present is considered a
challenge to the status quo of the present, and thus is a challenge to
groupthink, and thus is a form of domestic terrorism, which we will
call from now on thoughtcrime.

Thoughtcrime is essentially any thought pertaining to memory,
judgement of right and wrong, thoughts of an alternative reality, and
self-reflection, which are now all deemed forms of thoughtcrime. If an
individual is to engage in any of these sorts of thoughts, it is only
a matter of time before they will come into conflict with groupthink
and the Party line, thus private thoughts are banned and punished
under the new laws.

It may seem an impossible task at first not to engage in private
thoughts, but again, we assure you it is entirely possible using
crimestop. Crimestop is the practice of not grasping analogies,
failing to perceive logical errors, misunderstanding the simplest
arguments, of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is
capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop is essentially,
protective stupidity.

It is imperative that one practice crimestop during any interaction
with another individual, however, it is also imperative that one
practice crimestop within their own inner-dialogue, such that even
from your own conscience you will be protected from committing a
thoughtcrime.

Newspeak will also help dissuade from thoughtcrime. Newspeak is to be
the new acceptable vocabulary, anything that references words outside
of the most-up-to-date edition of the Newspeak dictionary will be
considered Oldspeak and something to be construed as counter to
groupthink. It is understood that by reducing the vocabulary to
revolve around a few words such as good; which for example can be used
as plusgood, doubleplusgood, ungood etc, it will serve to narrow the
range of thought an individual is capable of, and thus reduce the
capability of committing a thoughtcrime. How wonderful! That in the
future we will be unable to commit crime for we will be incapable of
its thought! This makes up another part of our new Party slogan:
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

In terms of the new laws, in effect, nothing will change. Unacceptable
behaviours and thoughts will not be designated as illegal per se; one
reason for this is because we do not plan on having any public trials.
Anyone who is in violation of conduct will simply be removed either
temporarily into a “re-education facility” or will be vaporised. Any
subject that has been vaporised will be removed from the collective
memory records and can never be referred to as having ever existed.

The reason why no public trials will be held from now on is because,
as we have seen, dissent is infectious. Thus, holding public trials
risk further encouragement towards dissent. It is for this reason that
dissenters must be removed swiftly and quietly in the middle of the
night. Such disappearances will occur relatively regularly and will
eventually become the new normal, however, it will not be traumatic
for the collective. The subject will simply cease to exist as if it
were all just a dream, the structure of our daily routine unaffected.

In order to ensure utmost compliance, the collective will be employing
the use of children spies, this has already been occurring abroad, and
proves to be very effective.

Purges and vaporizations will be a necessary part of the government
mechanics and will become the new normal. We have already discussed
the necessity for vaporizations, as for the necessity of purges, it is
because the community will be built so as to remain in stasis,
however, this can only be accomplished through artificial means, for
it is not natural that a thing remain the same but rather that it
either improves or deteriorates.

However, in order for the Party to maintain absolute control, there
can be no change to the present except for that chosen by the Party,
thus any change is a challenge to the Party. In order to facilitate an
artificial environment of no change, resources must artificially be
kept low, and purges need to occur so that this environment of
scarcity is tightly controlled and maintained.

In order for us to achieve this, our economy will have to go through
stagnation, we will need to decrease the amount of land used for
cultivation, we will no longer add capital equipment needed for
industrial growth and great blocks of the population will be prevented
from working and will be kept half alive by State charity. The wheels
of industry cannot be allowed to turn so as to increase the real
wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be
distributed, and in practice the only way of achieving this is by
continuous warfare.

War will continue under the Old Cold War doctrine. War will always be
present, and yet will never be seen by the majority of our citizens,
the reason for this being that war will not be about a real threat to
security nor about real conquests but rather will be about maintaining
the present status quo by exhausting the surplus of consumable goods,
while also helping to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a
hierarchical society needs.

However, real war will be purely an internal affair, the war waged by
the ruling group against its own subjects, with the object of the war
as to keep the structure of society intact and unchanging.

A peace that is truly permanent under this new ideology is no
different than an invisible permanent war. For peace in our new era
will equate to stability through no change. This makes up our first
Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.
Conclusion

All of these means are necessary if we are to realise that the only
secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism, and that oligarchy is the
only means to achieving peace, freedom and strength for the
collective.

However, we are still very far from this ideal and there is much that
threatens its becoming, namely, the masses, or what we call the
proles. So long as the masses believe that they are entitled to
freedom of thought, our endeavours cannot succeed.

The individual must voluntarily relinquish this. It cannot be taken
from them no matter the degree of control and no matter the threat of
physical harm. An individual’s mind is theirs and cannot be taken,
instead, the individual must be led to believe that it is in their
best interest to relinquish their mind.

Let us do our best then to convince the individual that they are no
longer fit to use their mind and let us pray that we are successful,
for if we fail, our entire system of control fails with it.

    “You would not make the act of submission which is the price of
sanity…Reality exists only in the human mind, nowhere else. Not in the
individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon
perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and
immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be truth, is truth. It is
impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the
Party.”

    – O’Brien in George Orwell’s “1984”
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