Painted Tile, by me
Although 2020 will be remembered as the year of coronavirus, that was a
distraction, a sleight of hand performed by an unscrupulous and dastardly
magician, the coin palmed while the other hand waves extravagantly and steal
the audience’s attention. The year to which Janus, the two-faced god of the
temporal threshold between years, has just said farewell was not the plague year
Daniel Defoe wrote his journal about, but a year which saw a cultural coup in
the West which more than anything else took place on the battlefield of
language.
I suspect that in a year’s
time we may know the answer to the question of how long societies last which
are almost entirely founded on lies, deceptions and falsehoods, and yet whose
citizens are strictly controlled as to what they can say and write. The
governments of the West, who couldn’t stop crowing about the internet when it
first arrived, don’t talk much about it now, except in negative terms as the dank
cellar wall on which grow racism, white supremacy, the far-Right, transphobia,
Islamophobia, and all the other alchemical words from a warped and weaponised
lexicon.
The control of language in
the current ethnic and political cold war – which could become a lot hotter – are
something the political Right seemed very late in noticing. Once you have
people in positions of considerable power uttering the notorious sentence which
begins, ‘of course we should have free speech, but…’ you are well on the way to
a linguistic gulag. And once the banning and censorship and de-platforming
begin, legislation is not far behind. Look at Scotland, whose ‘Justice
Minister’ wants to criminalise ‘hate speech’ in a person’s own home. He
is, incidentally, of Muslim extraction.
Addicted to deception, and anxious
not to appear authoritarian, governments outsource the work of censorship to
big tech and their respective police forces. They understand that you don’t
censor all at once, you add a stitch here, a thread there. And you make it
appear that it isn’t you doing it. Soon enough, there is a transfer of power,
and the speech and writing of ordinary people are policed in a way that crime and
anti-social behaviour no longer are.
Once you begin to dovetail
cultural practices instigated and maintained by the Left, and introduce the
same repressive speech codes into all of them, the wider scheme becomes more
apparent. Why is it that the Left are able to use meaningless phrases to
incredible effect in shutting down free speech? Because although people now are
technologically competent – so they will receive your diktats ex cathedra – they
are also poorly educated, and so lacking the critical faculties they would have
been equipped with had they had a sound, broadly Humanist, non-doctrinaire
education. Why did the UK government quietly introduce a bill stating that all
police officers must have a university degree? Because it is the best way to
ensure they have been educated in the school of cultural Marxism and not in any
traditional way which might swim against Leftist doctrine. Why is there so
little criticism of the Left in the media? Because the media is one of the key
provisional wings of the Left. This has been a coup a long time in the making –
since the 1960s at least – but it has been meticulously organised as all the
institutions gradually linked arms, and it has used language as one of its key
weapons.
The globalists too have been
great friends to the Left. They have collaborated with the various deep states
across the West to perfection. They have ensured that crime is imported into
Europe and America with a deliberate programme of mostly unskilled Islamic
labour (certainly in Europe), and, if that doesn’t destabilise the citizens
sufficiently, they have invented more crimes, one of which was criticism of
that very imported drain on social capital, Islam itself. There are not more
criminals. There are just more crimes. It’s a very different thing. Hate speech,
for example, is not a crime, it’s a set of widely held opinions which have been
denormalised. But once the people with the power are allowed to coerce the
citizenry by manipulation and co-ercion of language, if you let them do it,
then best of luck trying to stop them, because the clock is ticking and every
new hate crime becomes another loop in the bonds which hold the ordinary person
increasingly tightly.
The Left’s control of
language is a fascinating hybrid of ceremonial magic and Neuro-Linguistic
Programming. Their newly imposed lexicon works in exactly the same way as the
traditional magic spell of the magician or occultist. Words of power are
uttered. What the words are or mean literally is not important; what matters is
their power. ‘Systemic racism’, ‘unconscious racial bias’, ‘white privilege’,
‘climate change denier’, ‘inclusivity’, ‘black lives matter’, ‘Islamophobia’;
these words and others like them are void of meaning but invested with the
power to bind. None of the phrases above have any referent in the real world,
but Leftist epistemology is such that language does not have to conform to
semantic rules, but to politicised regulations structured towards the need for
power. Epistemology becomes demonology.
It is hardly controversial
to point out that the aim of the Left is power (which is why they have forged
such an alliance with Islam, and the hard Left are apprentices to Mohammedanism)
and the verso side of the coin we saw in the magician’s fingers earlier,
the recto side, is control. Just as there would be no coin without both
its sides, so too power and control are symbiotic, neither possible without the
other but they are not exactly the same thing.
Many British police forces
have stated publicly that they cannot guarantee to attend your property if you
have been burgled. More monstrously, several British forces calculatedly
ignored Muslim ‘grooming gangs’ (that word is far too respectable for what went
on) for years and possibly even decades. But Tweet that there are only two genders,
or that Black Lives Matter should pay a little more attention to black-on-black
crime, or, as one women recently did in Britain, video an empty hospital with a
critical voiceover, when we are told hospitals are at breaking point, then post
it on social media, and you can go to jail. As the politician says in Burgess’s
(and Kubrick’s) A Clockwork Orange, the rehabilitation known as the
‘Lodovico treatment’ will help clear the prisons because ‘soon we will be
needing all our prison space for political prisoners’.
And the individual is under
attack from another direction. As the canon of English literature is ‘ decolonised’
, so you are not only instructed as to what you may and may not say, but to
what you are and are not permitted to read. Now, all banned books will be by
white men. There is a certainty about that which is almost reassuring.
Another aspect of the roping
and tying of language affects those in the public eye. Recently, in the UK,
soccer team Millwall – whose supporters are known as, shall we say, a rowdy
bunch – booed when their team showed the gesture of obeisance known as ‘taking
the knee’. Of course, public figures queued up to denounce them. Then they further
denounced a Conservative politician as, according to the new commissars, his
criticism was insufficiently withering and robust. So the new language
overlords not only control what you can’t say, but what you must say.
At school, many moons ago,
we had a little rhyme which we repeated to any child who might insult us;
Sticks and stones may break
my bones,
But words will never hurt
me.
Like childhood, the truth of
that has gone. Words, in the UK, can very much hurt you, lacking as that nation
does an equivalent to the First Amendment. But it is not the words spoken or
written to you that can hurt (unless you use the lie of being offended). No,
the words you say can lose you your job and the chance of getting another, your
place at university, your house, your children and, ultimately, your liberty.
Reclaiming language from the
Left is one of the great upcoming battles in an ongoing war, and, while the
Left are on the march, the Right haven’t even got their boots on.
