DEI Is Dying
I have always been fascinated by language and its evolution. The way it reflects and affects both reality and our perception of it. The way it can be used and abused to serve particular ends.
As an appendix to 1984, Orwell wrote an essay called “The Principles of Newspeak”. The concept was inspired by the totalitarian propaganda of his time, both of fascism and communism.
Newspeak is designed to limit thought and used to enforce conformity. Some prominent features of newspeak are judgment, emotions and cognitive dissonance, or ‘doublethink’ in Newspeak parlance.
I grew up in the communist world; I grew up with its propaganda. Eventually, I came to understand the importance of the underlying concept, best expressed in the engraving on Marx’s tombstone:
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways –
the point, however, is to change it”
DEI is the perfect example of Orwellian doublethink, newspeak and the neocommunist drive behind it. The essence of communism is that we don’t need to understand the world as long as we have the will to shape it, and the power to do it.
DEI, The Great Reset, Build Back Better, the call for ‘democratic’ socialism, various censorship, fact-checking and speech-control initiatives are just the latest reincarnation of the global communism project.
Communism, the cultural revolution and DEI all start with the assumptions that in our natural state, we are all the same; that there are no differences in our abilities, attitudes and personalities. Any observable difference is either irrelevant or the result of ill will, expressed in discrimination.
If you notice the patent stupidity and the cognitive dissonance in the circular logic of the claims, you just have proven that you are guilty of crimethink, oldthink and false consciousness. It means that you are a bad person in need of reform. DEI is the path to that reform.
We can explore that path by looking at their idealized narrative; exposing the slight of hand; stating the
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