Saturday, May 23, 2015
‘Politricks’ and the English Language | PJ Media
This article just about says it all; and sadly, too many of us could care less.
The dumbing down of significant groups of people appears to have been successful.
It HAS happened before...
The dumbing down of significant groups of people appears to have been successful.
It HAS happened before...
At PJmedia.com, David Solway thoughtfully wsrites this and much more:
"The slippery slope has now become a precipitous cliff-face. We note how academia has come to resemble the German universities of the 1930s, centers not of learning and scholarship but of political indoctrination. Our media outlets are like the Pravdas and Izvestias of the Soviet Union but to a more effective degree, since they operate under the guise of freedom and openness, thus deceiving a lazy and gullible clientele unaware that 'News' has morphed into propaganda. The occupant of the most powerful office in the world, the American presidency, is the living incarnation of the Prince of Lies (the latest in an endless series of lies being that the Ebola virus is definitely not airborne and that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground in Iraq) and yet he continues to energize his electoral base and wealthy donors with an appealing façade and typically suave rhetoric. And the political elite with its hangers-on — feminists, race mongers, journalists, 'pro-choicers,' radical bloggers, anti-Zionists, 'social justice' activists, community organizers, liberation theologians — no longer even try, for the most part, to engage in argument and honest debate but have resorted to a broad range of rhetorical expedients: barefaced falsehoods, gross defamation, character assassination, crude hyperbole, and flagrant vulgarity. So much for the public conversation of ideas. Saul Alinsky would be proud.
One comes across innumerable instances of such malpractice every day. Just one hour of desultory Internet scanning yielded the following:"
