"Ignorance is strength."-George Orwell, 1984 And our State controlled schools and media have done this job very well, I'm sorry to say. The terrible and murderous lies of our governments rely upon the masses being misinformed, ignorant, and intellectually crippled. (Both are very basic and essential knowledge of formal logic.) You'll find that not one in twenty have any idea. adults how to determine if a deductive argument is both valid and sound or the difference between a formal and an informal logical fallacy. Civil War.) Don't believe me? Just go out and ask some average U.S. (In his book ' The Underground History of American Education' John Taylor Gatto informs his readers that this deliberate dumbing down of the population through State controlled schools was adopted nationwide just after the completion of the U.S. You see, the masses haven't been taught formal logic by State controlled public schools or media for many generations. (Formal logic, invented by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., is the science of evaluating arguments in order to determine if they are correctly reasoned. Central to this crime is the deliberate suppression of the science of formal logic. ("a priori" is defined as deduced from self-evident premises)īy revealing the concept of "Newspeak" in his great dystopian novel '1984', George Orwell, while dying of tuberculosis, cryptically attempted to expose to the world one of the great crimes of government against humanity the systematic suppression/subversion of essential tools of reasoning both in language and science. Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Controversy "Logic, therefore, as the science thought, or the science of the process of pure reason, should be capable of being constructed a priori." 'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.' " 'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words'. The Eleventh Edition won't contain a singe word that will become obsolete before the year 2050. We're cutting the language down to the bone. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. When we've finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. ' We're getting the language into its final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. 'The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,' he said. He had brightened up immediately at the mention of Newspeak. " ' How is the dictionary getting on?' Said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise.
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