We’ll be starting another George Orwell novel soon but first I wanted to share this famous essay with you, “Politics and the English Language,” published before Orwell wrote 1984 but in many ways it serves as a precursor to everything the writer would say about Newspeak in the later novel. In this treatise he explains how language is being abused and distorted by politics and ideology; how words with literal meaning are being replaced by phrases that are “tacked together.” Orwell writes that “the word Fascism now has no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” The essay is a brilliant anticipation of what we today call “talking points,” the repetition of stock phrases and political jargon that are used by all politicians, government departments and corporate spokespersons. Once again, Orwell was incredibly prescient about where both language and political discourse was headed.
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David Krayden Reads George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"